Monday January 4 Christmas 2
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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.
Psalm 87
A vision of Jerusalem as the source of life for all the world, as if every nation and every beautiful thing originated there. Christians might interpret this as Jesus’ death and resurrection in Jerusalem being the source of life and beauty for the whole world.
Exodus 3: 1-12
God’s eternal promise is in doubt when the people are enslaved in Egypt. God appears to Moses to reaffirm God’s eternal commitment to the people, and chooses Moses to lead them back to the land God had promised to Abraham.
John 14: 6-14
John understands that Jesus is the way in which we experience God – if we have seen his death and resurrection as the only way to live, the truth about how we become mature, and the essence of full life, then we have seen God. To have known this central character of Jesus is to have experienced God. Those who live in that character will do even greater acts than Jesus. John understands that Jesus is passing his own life on to his disciples. As Jesus’ earthly life recedes into the past, this is how he remains present—through the life of the Christian community.
This week’s collect:
God of power and life,
the glory of all who believe in you,
fill the world with your splendour
and show the nations the light of your truth;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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