Wednesday, 19 July 2017

I HAVE RESOLVED TO BRING YOU UP OUT OF EGYPT

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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