PRAYER PAUSE
Thursday, 20 July 2017
I HAVE
RESOLVED TO BRING YOU UP OUT OF EGYPT
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I have visited you and seen all
that the Egyptians are doing to you. And so I have resolved to bring you up out
of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:13-20)
Reflection. A parable is a powerful way of
enlightenment. It tells an easily understood story on one level with a “hidden”
meaning you are invited to tease out on another. Perhaps the whole story of the
Exodus is a parable as well as being a real event. Today’s reading tells of God’s
direct intervention in the lives of the Israelites in Egypt. It has been used
ever since as a powerful ikage of liberation, as with Martin Luther King and
the Civil Rights movement in the USA. Its wider
and yet deeply personal message involves every person . God approaches
us as he did Moses and calls us to be engaged in our liberation. What does that
mean for me today?
Prayer. Lord, “you come, come, ever come”
(Tagore). May your visit spark in us a response of engagement on out jourey to
freedom. Amen.
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