Daily Worship

Wear the Call of the Spirit

Keith Ross June 05, 2017 0 1
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Numbers 11: 24-25

Numbers 11: 24-25, 29b

24 So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and made them stand round the tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied – but did not do so again.

 

I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!’

A few years ago it was a teen craze to wear a ‘WWJD’ or a ‘Make Poverty History’ wristband. It’s a practise that has a biblical tradition. Such symbols are used as a physical reminder of God’s calling to action. Many wear a pendant cross as a marker of their faith, rooting the expression of this calling to follow Jesus in a sacred image of the crucified and risen Jesus. Such sacred images or words in our prayers can be the mental equivalent of realising the power of God to clear the blocks to new life and to cleanse our world, opening the possibility of new perspectives upon the world we relate to.

“I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!” Numbers 11: 29b.

 

Prayer

 

Lord, we sometimes need a touchstone in our lives to anchor us and remind us of Your presence. A symbol to declutter the busyness, the concerns, the long term experiences that affect us daily. A device that prevents the reflections of the past imprisoning us from seeing Your Spirit creating new possibilities.

 

Lord, help us to be real with ourselves and with others.

 

In sacred words and images Your Spirit provides us with power to change. Let it impact upon the challenges facing young people in an unequal world. Let it affect parents guiding children in a compartmentalised culture full of temptations. Let Your words give meaning and purpose to the directionless, the materialist, the dissatisfied and the alienated.

 

Whatever words and images we focus from: let go; be still; trust love; open my heart, come Lord, bring Your Spirit upon us. May these be a constant reminder of our individual call to the activity of God within and all around us. Amen.