Wednesday 25 May 2022

Today is Wednesday the 25th of May, in the sixth week of Easter.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo sing Uqinisil’Ubaba: After travelling the whole world, I still come to the same truth that I left at home: God is truth! So why do you doubt? Don’t doubt, hold on to him and place your hope in him. Listen to God because he is truth.
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Today’s reading is from the Gospel of John.
John 16.12-15
‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

As he says goodbye to his disciples Jesus tells them he has more to share with them, but they are not yet ready for it.
What is stirring in me as I hear those words?
What might Jesus want to say to me that would be difficult to hear?

What truth do I think the Spirit may be revealing to the world at this time?
How do I feel about what is yet to come?

As the passage is read again, I listen to how the Father, Jesus and the Spirit are woven together. What truth about God’s love am I being shown?

In these final moments of prayer, I ask for the Holy Spirit to continue to lead us all into God’s truth.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.