Tuesday, 7 November 2017

IF ANYONE COMES WITHOUT HATING

PRAYER PAUSE  


Wednesday 8 November 2017


IF ANYONE COMES WITHOUT HATING


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “If anyone comes to me witout hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:25-33)



Reflection. Jesus shocks and provokes. His language seems exaggerated. But he makes a radical call. The kingdom comes first. Eveything else – even my life – comes second.  I am reading the life of John Bradburne by Didier Rance. John was killed in 1979 near Mutemwa in Zimbabwe where he lived with people with leprosy. It is clear his whole life was a desire to live out this call of the gospel. John went far beyond what most of us can do but he is given to us as a compass bearing. This is the way. One way or another the call to Abraham right down through the ages to each of us living today remains as the only path to human happiness.



Prayer. Lord, help us to desire to mould our life to the call you place in our hearts. Help us to see with rinsed eyes where our true happiness lies. Amen.

































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