I REALLY COME FROM HIM

PRAYER PAUSE  

Friday 16 March 2018

I REALLY COME FROM HIM

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “There is one who sent me and I really come frm him, but you do not know him … They would have arrested him then but his time had not yet come.” (John 7:1…30)

Reflection. Two weeks before Good Friday the temperature of confrontation rises.  The real issue is whether the people accepted Jesus as the one sent by God or not. There would be huge implications whatever way they decided.  This choice has hung over humanity ever since. Two of us were travelling yesterday and we had a blow out on a front wheel.  People stopped to help but could not solve our problem. Eventually, well after dark and on a lonely road far from anywhere, a man stopped with just the tools needed. As he sorted us out he confided he was not a great one for church or faith. But it was clear he had made  a choice in the direction of his life. He was a good Samaritan but would have been surprised at Jesus’ commendation of him.

Prayer. Lord, help us, as we approach Holy Week, to relect on our choices. May we “lose our life” so that we may find it. Amen