Monday May 24 Pentecost
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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.
Deuteronomy 4: 1-9 What’s Deuteronomy about?
For the next three weeks we read from the book of Deuteronomy. This book contains the many commandments that Moses was said to have given to the Israelites in the wilderness. In today’s passage, Moses says that God reminds the people of the expectation to live in justice with each other, and that things will not go well if they abandon that justice.
In the same way, Christians, who have just entered the new life in Christ through the gift of the Holy Spirit, need also to remain faithful to the way of life through sacrificial death that they learned from Jesus.
Luke 14: 25-35 What’s Luke about?
Jesus says that it is not going to be easy to be his follower and if you naively imagine you won’t have to give up your life, then you won’t enter into the fulness of life—it is costly to live in his death and resurrection. But if we don’t do that, then we have no value, just as salt is useless if it has no taste.
This week’s collect:
Almighty and everliving God,
who fulfilled the promises of Easter
by sending us your Holy Spirit
and opening to every race and nation
the way of life eternal,
keep us in the unity of your Spirit,
that every tongue may tell of your glory;
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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