Thursday April 22 Easter 3
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Psalm 37 Part 1
It’s tempting to want to be as successful as evil people, but seeking God’s justice will fulfill us, and God will defeat evil completely.
Daniel 5: 13-30 What’s Daniel about?
Daniel interprets the new king’s dream to mean that God will punish the king for sacrilege. The king greatly honours Daniel, but that night is killed—thus confirming Daniel’s interpretation, and Darius becomes king.
This series of stories arising from the unique insights of Judaism about the priority of justice in government, and demonstrating the fragility of pagan military cultures would have been of great encouragement to the Jews living just before the time of Jesus under the domination of the Greek and later Roman empires.
Luke 5: 1-11 What’s Luke about?
Fisher people on the lake of Galilee had been pushed into destitution by Roman taxation in order to build from scratch the enormous city and port of Tiberius glorifying the puppet king Herod. For Jesus to enable a huge catch of fish in such a context is a subversive act, and is experienced by the peasant people as God’s liberation actually arriving. No wonder they follow him. When we have experienced liberation in Christ we also respond with energy.
This week’s collect:
O God,
your Son made himself known to his disciples
in the breaking of bread.
Open the eyes of our faith,
that we may see him in his redeeming work,
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Barbara Smith-Moran, Alan Snyder, Gregory Alistair So,
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