Reflection & Scripture: Sunday 27th February and for the week ahead

Scripture:

1 Timothy 2.1-2 Instructions concerning Prayer

2.1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be made for everyone, 2for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.

Reflection:

I suspect that you are feeling pretty much the same as me in view of the news from Ukraine and Russia: feeling helpless, that you can’t do anything to change the situation.

The verses above urges us to pray. We can all pray. Why are we urged to pray? A. “So that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.” That is the life that the people of the Ukraine, I’m sure, want to live. Did you notice whom it is we are urged to pray for? A. “For….all who are in high positions”.

Those in “high positions” includes world leaders; it includes President Putin. Surely, at this time, our prayer must be for a turn of heart of those who perpetrate evil and who seek war? As well as prayer for those innocent people caught up in the conflict. We can all pray. We cannot fight in the Ukraine. We cannot impose sanctions on Putin. We can pray for a change of heart, and for peace.

Revd David