Monday August 30 Pentecost 14
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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.
2 Chronicles 6: 32- 7:7 What’s Chronicles about?
The book of Chronicles, written five hundred years after Solomon, describes Solomon asking God to accept people of other religions and to forgive the Israelites when they had been faithless to the God of justice and have been captured by foreigners. We are hearing the writers offering hope to the people of their time in exile with Solomon’s temple destroyed.
The temple worship and the sacrifices described at the end of the passage will continue for a thousand years—for five hundred in this temple until it was destroyed by the Babylonians, and then for another five hundred in the rebuilt temple until it was destroyed by the Romans forty years after the earthly life of Jesus.
Mark 14: 53-65 What’s Mark about?
Jesus is interrogated by the Jewish leaders and condemned for identifying with God. Perhaps the most offensive part of Jesus’ claim to identify with God is that it is in the character of God to undergo suffering and death. Such commitment to justice and inclusive love is still suspect in modern society.
This week’s collect:
Author and Giver of all good things,
graft in our hearts the love of your name,
increase in us true religion,
nourish us in all goodness,
and of your great mercy keep us in the same;
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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