16/01/2023

I am really trying to keep pride out of this record of prayer. Yesterday I was pretty impressed with what I was writing and lost it in cyberspace never to be recovered. Today I have been truly impressed with the passage from Hebrews and want to keep it that way. Let reading the words inspired by the Holy Spirit be my prayer and my reflections take second place for Father Son and Holy Spirit know what is happening in my head and the only benefit of my fingers on keyboard is for me to stop everything and put God first for a few minutes each day.

I was vaguely aware that the Letter to the Hebrews was an important source of God's revelation. I am beginning to recognise why this is so. The knowing part of know, love and serve  God is to be found revealed in the Scriptures directly through Moses and the prophets and into our New Testament

The first years of our Christian Church was an obedience on the part of the Apostles to preach to the whole world and simultaneously a growth in understanding of what had been totally different about the three years that they had been with Jesus. Mary is the only human to have known and loved the Incarnation for the nine months she was literally Theotokos and the thirty three years of Jesus' human life.

Jesus faced many questions during his preaching days. Some were genuine enquiries by those who were perplexed in their Jewishness and wanted to put him into some human category that they could understand. We have many examples of the poor Pharisees trying to catch him out but there were some genuine seekers of enlightenment and it is those souls open to God who "go out to the whole world". We receive their message but it is the priests "for ever" who have to perpetuate the  inconceivable "sin offering"that comes out of the very being of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord let your Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your priests and help them to find the courage to shout out your love for all mankind by denying the lies with which "the Father of Lies"captures the stupidity that is the wisdom of mankind. Let your Mother's prayers be heard and let us know the tenderness with which she cared for the perfection of your childhood and  the awe with which she and all the saints are in the presence of your resurrected being.