Monday December 28 Christmas 1
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Psalm 26
I do not sit down with the wicked: this gives us words to say how we wish to live, that deep in our heart we really are such people as keep God’s commands to love and do justice. “My foot stands on level ground” because we ground our lives on the solid base of justice.
Isaiah 26: 1-9
Isaiah speaks with confidence that God will ensure a safe return to Jerusalem for those who follow the way of justice and care for the poor, and will ensure that those who were oppressors will have no place to live.
Matthew 2: 13-18
Luke had seen Jesus’ significance in repeating the events of Samuel’s birth, but Matthew interprets Jesus as a repetition of Moses’ birth. To escape Herod’s murderous rage Joseph takes Jesus to Egypt thus setting the scene so that Jesus can return from Egypt to the land God promised, just as Moses did when he led the people from Egypt to the promised land.
Can Jesus be for us the route of escape from slavery to the assumptions that oppression and national violence are inevitable, into the promised land where the world is the way God intended?
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
you have shed upon us the new light
of your incarnate Word.
May this light, enkindled in our hearts,
shine forth in our lives;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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