Following Columba with Matthew under the arm 1.
The Matthew postings are focused on the sentence in the middle.... Each sentence is meant to be a kind of infusion - and affective experience of brief but deep prayer wherever you are.
(Matthew 1.1-17)
Have a coffee or something and read these verses.....
While learning to know Christ in prayer with Matthew’s Gospel, the names of the generations are not so importance as the sense of process that lies behind them. Risk, Hope in the new, suffering and delight in God’s presence. Those of us who place ourselves alongside the Gospel, begin to know Him. This is about falling in love with God in Christ who is in Abraham, the one who risks leaving his home to create the new community. (Following Columba) There is the looking in hope to fulfilment of God’s promise of unity with Him – the realisation of Love. There is the suffering of the great ones in the development of Israel, leading to the Suffering of God Himself – Jesus Christ. God is present in our history intimately. My task is to know this history intimately in the heart, so that I can participate in its creativity and healing.
Lead me, Christ, into a deeper Knowledge of Thy Way
You are part of a race with all its memories, many of which lie deep in the unconsciousness. This meditation does not happen in isolation although you may be alone. Christ comes to you from a vast array of human beings throughout history. The wonder of that is almost numbing. The meditation implies a trusting attitude that you will perceive Christ deeply in you as he hungers to be here for you right now in the Gospel. Do not be hindered by a false sense of inadequacy. It may be that following your praying with Matthew through each sentence you will want to know more, understand more. You have begun to read the Gospel. Allow this sentence to ‘take you by the hand’ and lead you to your intimately friendship with Christ amongst the staggering myriad of followers known and unknown.
+Martin
Argylland The Isles
(Matthew 1.1-17)
Have a coffee or something and read these verses.....
While learning to know Christ in prayer with Matthew’s Gospel, the names of the generations are not so importance as the sense of process that lies behind them. Risk, Hope in the new, suffering and delight in God’s presence. Those of us who place ourselves alongside the Gospel, begin to know Him. This is about falling in love with God in Christ who is in Abraham, the one who risks leaving his home to create the new community. (Following Columba) There is the looking in hope to fulfilment of God’s promise of unity with Him – the realisation of Love. There is the suffering of the great ones in the development of Israel, leading to the Suffering of God Himself – Jesus Christ. God is present in our history intimately. My task is to know this history intimately in the heart, so that I can participate in its creativity and healing.
Lead me, Christ, into a deeper Knowledge of Thy Way
You are part of a race with all its memories, many of which lie deep in the unconsciousness. This meditation does not happen in isolation although you may be alone. Christ comes to you from a vast array of human beings throughout history. The wonder of that is almost numbing. The meditation implies a trusting attitude that you will perceive Christ deeply in you as he hungers to be here for you right now in the Gospel. Do not be hindered by a false sense of inadequacy. It may be that following your praying with Matthew through each sentence you will want to know more, understand more. You have begun to read the Gospel. Allow this sentence to ‘take you by the hand’ and lead you to your intimately friendship with Christ amongst the staggering myriad of followers known and unknown.
+Martin
Argylland The Isles
posted by Martin at 8:53 pm
2 Comments:
"Christ comes to you from a vast array of human beings throughout history."
This is such a powerful truth - a vast array tailing all the way down to oneself, now.
I've thought about this before
how that when we pray we are adding our prayer to the prayer-stream of all who have prayed, past,present and even future,and are also entering into that community of prayer upon Earth and in Heaven in time and also in eternity. By prayer we present ourselves within the temporal and eternal assemblies of God.
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