SHAPOGA: Sustaining Human Attention at the Point Of Greatest Avoidance
MIC Check
Today’s Most Important Challenge is…
• Learning to make choices
• That don’t protect my ego
Held In Scripture (Hosting Ignatian Spirituality)
I see Jesus.
He is… dead.
He was our hero
Our leader
Our friend
And we betrayed Him
Denied Him
Abandoned Him
While the mighty of earth
Cast Him down from the heights
Where the wild beasts
Devoured
His broken body
I see myself.
I have become
One of those beasts
Like Nebuchadnezzar
Bereft of my reason
Shunning human society
But when I feast
On the body and blood of Jesus…
Everything changes!
To be continued
Response
What did I experience Jesus as?
• Broken for and by me
Consolation
How did I move toward Jesus?
• Eating His body
• Drinking His blood
• Receiving His life
• Facing my shame
Scripture
“Food fell from the skies, thick as clouds; their provision floated down right in front of their eyes! He gave them all they desired, and they ate to their fill.
Psalms 78:28–33 TPT
But before they had even finished, even with their food still in their mouths, God’s fiery anger arose against them, killing the finest of their mighty men.
Yet in spite of all this, they kept right on sinning. Even when they saw God’s marvels, they refused to believe God could care for them.
So God cut their lives short with sudden disaster, with nothing to show for their lives but fear and failure.”
Inspired by Prayers on Fire for Men
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