Monday January 18 Epiphany 2
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Psalm 25
I desperately need God’s support both from those who attack me, and from actions that are my own fault, and I know God is always generous to those in such a situation.
Isaiah 44: 6-8, 21-23
There is no other God like this God who can actually do things. God dares the other gods to say they knew what God would do, but they cannot. God has expunged all Israel’s evil, and all creation will rejoice that God has brought the people home!
Mark 3: 7-19a
This passage is a summary of the kingdom’s arrival: people press in to be cured, evil spirits announce who Jesus is – they are subject to him – and God’s new society emerges in the form of a new community built around Jesus. There are 12 apostles because this is the symbolic number of the complete Jewish community with 12 tribes descended from Jacob’s 12 sons.
Christians could understand this to be the formation of a new global community. Jesus calls us, like the original disciples, to proclaim that the kingdom is breaking in now, and to exercise God’s power to overcome evil.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ
is the light of the world.
May your people,
illumined by your word and sacraments,
shine with the radiance of his glory,
that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed
to the ends of the earth;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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