Acts 12:25-13:13 reading from Morning Prayer today, the Feast of St Mark.
I am struck that Paul informs the magus Elymas that
‘the hand of the Lord is against you’ – mirroring Paul’s own conversion experience on the road to Damascus. The hand of the Lord being against you is
not lifted in anger, but as constraint, giving direction, preventing the one
veering off the path from going over the edge by nudging them back towards the
centre.
The language of God being against our enemies is
common-place, expressing our lust for judgement, not our love for mercy. But
where might we need – where might we hope for – God’s hand to be against us?
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