Monday March 14 Lent 2
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Psalm 56
In the face of intense attack by evil, we trust that God will act for what is right.
Psalm 57
Another psalm expressing our trust that God will act for what is right in the face of intense attack by evil.
Psalm 58
An impassioned plea for evil to be overcome. We should read the violence not literally but as an expression of our determination that good will prevail.
Genesis 41.46-57 What’s Genesis about?
The technology and administration for large-scale food storage was developed by the ancient Egyptians. The story sees Joseph as inventing these skills. The famine spreads beyond Egypt and the whole world starts to come to Egypt for food. God’s covenant, enacted through Joseph, saves the entire world.
Mark 3.7-19a What’s Mark about?
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, including people from non-Jewish cultures who were considered disgusting, 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, whose Son was revealed in majesty
before he suffered death upon the cross,
give us faith to perceive his glory,
that being strengthened by his grace
we may be changed into his likeness, from glory to glory;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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