PRAYER PAUSE
Friday 24 March 2017
I WILL FALL
LIKE DEW
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I will love them with all my heart,
for my anger has turned from them. I will fall like dew on Israel.” (Hos
14:2-10)
Reflection. In lands far from the equator, a
farmer going out to his fields in the morning will often find them covered in a
light sparkling layer of damp. This dew appears silently in the night and Hosea
uses it as a metaphor for God’s healing way with the nations. You do not notice
but he is at work transforming hearts and structures. Jesus used another image –
leaven – but again its work is silent and hidden. We must believe that God is
transforming our world and bringing about his kingdom, his reign, where justice
and peace will flourish. And he is at work in each of us and we hardly notice
it. Yet we can trust that it is happening and rejoice.
Prayer. Lord, help us to believe in your
transforming presence in our lives and let us rejoice. Amen.
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