Friday December 25 Christmas Day
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Psalm 2
Other nations laugh at God and God’s people, but God has chosen this people and their king, and God will have the final word.
Christians may understand this to be God’s statement of placing the justice and reconciliation we know in the death and resurrection of Christ as the ultimate reality. All other attempts at finding full life through self-interest are laughable.
Psalm 85
Trust that God will save us, despite what we have done, and will fill us with plenty and fill the land with justice.
Zechariah 2: 10-13
God is about to come and live in Jerusalem – so all will be well and all will rejoice.
John 3: 31-36
John’s gospel claims that Jesus is the way we experience God. To refuse that experience is to refuse to live. If Jesus’ death and resurrection is the ultimate reality, then choosing to be part of that is the way to ultimate life. The point of Christmas, for John, is not the birth of a baby, but our response to God’s offer of new life.
This week’s collect:
O God our Father,
whose Word has come among us
in the Holy Child of Bethlehem,
may the light of faith
illumine our hearts
and shine in our words and deeds;
through him who is Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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