Tuesday January 12 Epiphany 1
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Psalm 5
Trust that God will act to overcome evil around me.
Psalm 6
I have been hounded almost to death, help me, God. Thanks be to God that God heard me.
Isaiah 40: 25-31
Isaiah continues the image of God as hugely powerful behind the universe, and therefore entirely able to rescue the people from Babylon. “Lift up your eyes and see…” in this context means “Look at the stars…”
Mark 1: 14-28
John is arrested, and Jesus appears and proclaims that the kingdom is very close. He has discovered how the kingdom arrives: his first words in Mark’s gospel insist that the kingdom is not only coming, but is on the verge of breaking in. This is a whole new approach, and on that basis he calls his first four disciples. Jesus enables the kingdom to actually take place – evil knows exactly what is going on, and someone overcome by evil is set free from it. People are amazed – they see the kingdom actually happening!
This week’s collect:
Eternal Father,
who at the baptism of Jesus
revealed him to be your Son,
anointing him with the Holy Spirit,
keep your children, born of water and the Spirit,
faithful to their calling;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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