To the ends of the earth

Lily Cathcart October 06, 2024 4 2

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Acts 1: 8 (NRSVA)

8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’

If you try to find the ends of the earth you will discover instead that you never stop moving. The early church was called to spread the news that God loves us as far as they could imagine, and beyond; to the ends of the earth. Perhaps this is the reason they never stopped moving.

Perhaps this is the reason that in 2006 a remarkably preserved book of psalms was discovered in a peat bog in Ireland, after lying undisturbed for a thousand years.

In the psalter’s binding were pieces of papyrus which had been grown, stripped, flattened, pressed and sealed so far away and so long ago to carry words about God further than the psalm’s composer imagined.

This week join us as we read a psalm, remember that psalter, that papyrus, and think about movement: that never ending journey of the news that God loves us and wants the very best for us in our lives wherever we are. Even to the never-ending ends of the earth.

Prayer:

Dear God who loves us

Thank you that you never stop moving

Thank you that your love reaches every corner of the earth

Help us to love each other wherever we are

Help us to love your never-ending earth

Amen