PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 28 April 2018
IF
YOU KNOW ME
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: If you know me, you know my Father too. From
this moment you know him.” (John 14:7-14)
Reflection. People in every age have
searched for the “unknown god” – whatever name they have given him or her. They have instinctively understood that there
must be some supreme maker of all things. This supreme being revealed himself in
antiquity to “our fathers” as “I am” (Yahweh) and now he is revealed in Jesus.
The gospel of John makes this clear and tells us how hard it was for the
disciples to grasp it. But they do in
the end and when Paul preaches in Pisidia some of his hearers begin to “know”
and were “filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.”(Acts 13:14-52) And we too come to “know” God - not, the mystics always remind us - in that
we understand God and can describe him as we would a person, but through our
reaching out to him in love.
Prayer. Lord, help us to know you,
love you and follow you more closely. Amen
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