PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 21 April 2018,
Anselm
ONE
PLACE AFTER ANOTHER
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “Peter visited one place
after another and eventually came to the saints living down in Lydda.” (Acts
9:31-42)
Reflection. Luke in Acts is intent on
mirroring the life of Jesus in the life of the early Church. Jesus travelled
everywhere and now Peter is doing the same.
Jesus preached and backed up his teaching with signs, healing people and
even raising them from the dead. Peter
here heals Aeneas and raises Dorcas from the dead. It is Luke’s way of saying Jesus trusted his
work to his followers. They were to do
what he did. Yet it comes with a
price. In our gospel today (John
6:60-69) many of Jesus’ followers left him and Jesus turns to Peter and the
eleven and says “will you also go?” It
must have been a testing moment. But Peter was able to to it with a huge act of
trust: “To whom shall we go?”
Prayer. Lord, in moments of testing
give us the strength to rise above ourselves. Amen
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