PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 1 April 2017
THEIR SCHEMING
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “The Lord revealed it to me; I was
warned. Lord, that was when you opened my eyes to their scheming.” (Jeremiah
11:18-20)
Reflection. The atmosphere of menace builds up in
these last two weeks of Lent. Jeremiah experiences something similar as he
lives in the last days of the independent kingdom of Juda. The Pharisees
dismiss out of hand the questions of the “rabble”, as they call the ordinary
people, and of Nicodemus, searching for answers to the question, “Is Jesus the
Christ?” Blindly, they persist in their determination to preserve what they
call, “law and order” and “state security.” They do not want change. They do
not want to open their hearts to consider a better world for all. And yet, imperceptibly,
God was at work, then as he is now, for the ‘healing of the nations.’
Prayer. Lord, we approach these days with
sorrowful hearts for your suffering and for out incapacity to open our hearts
to one another. Amen.
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