Meditation / confession

MATTHEW 11 28-30

²⁸“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

1) We have seen others and not them brought comfort.

Let us think of those who are broken hearted.

Let us hear their crying.

Let us see their tears. (bigger pause)

Some look at an empty chair

Some bleed from wounds that none have tended. ( bigger pause)

Where have we been?

REFRAIN look at our hands Romans 7 The good that I would, I do not, the evil that I would not, those things I do. Wretched person that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death.

2) We have seen others suffer under the yoke of this world

Sometimes we have put food in the foodbank

Sometimes we give to charity

But haven't we often denied food to the hungry whilst overfeeding ourselves

Sometime we have chosen to feed our own egos with trinkets

whilst others have nothing whilst other go without (bigger pause)

What have I done?

REFRAIN look at our hands Romans 7 The good that I would, I do not, the evil that I would not, those things I do. Wretched person that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death.

3) We have seen the weary and not given them rest.

Sometimes we see victims of abuse and offer them naught but pity

Sometimes we see the weak and see only self advancement 

Sometimes we see the old and the unemployed and all we see are problems and numbers

Who am I helping?

REFRAIN look at our hands Romans 7 The good that I would, I do not, the evil that I would not, those things I do. Wretched person that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death.