Reflection: Sunday 7th August and for the week ahead:

Scripture:

‘From those who have received much, much will be required, and from them that have been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.’ (Luke 12.48)

Reflection:

This is one of the sayings of Jesus that surely speaks for itself. But though its meaning is quite clear the implications for all of us are very challenging.

We have received so much. We enjoy a degree of peace and prosperity unimaginable in many parts of the world, and even to many in our own. country.

For Christians there can never be a sense of ‘entitlement’. We have what we have by the grace of God, gifts given to us to use in his service.

It’s often said that ‘the more we have, the more we want’, but Jesus reminds us that the more we have the more we are able to give to others.

And what we give to others, we give to God.

‘All things come from you, o Lord, and of your own do we give you’.

Revd Rosemary Kobus van Wengen