PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, SS Philip and
James
TO HAVE SEEN
ME IS TO HAVE SEEN THE FATHER
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Have I been with you all this time,
Philip, and you still do not know me? To have seen me is to have seen the
Father.” (John 14:6-14).
Reflection. When Jesus speak s of his Father we
tend to get lost. I doubt if Philip understood – or any of them. The “three-ness”
of God is beyond our understanding. Yet we can grasp something of the heart of
God; that while God is One, in his one-ness there are relations. We would be in
inconceivable isolation and loneliness without relationships and we are made in
God’s image. So it follows that our relationships – so basic to all our
existence – image relationships in God. So, when Jesus reveals the Father and
the Spirit, we can at least have some idea of the origin, and the destination,
of our own experience.
Prayer. Lord, help us to pay attention
to all our relationships; the most intimate
and enduring and the most brief and passing. Amen.
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