Thursday July 7 Pentecost 4
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Psalm 18 Part 1
A meditation on God’s immense power to save:—a poetic imaginative recounting of the crossing of the Red Sea and God’s rescue of the people from their slave masters. The psalm can be read as if it were the experience of one person being rescued or as if the nation is speaking with a single voice.
Deuteronomy 3.18-28 What’s Deuteronomy about?
Moses says that even though God has given them the land, they must still conquer it with their armed men. Because the people were disobedient, God has decided that Moses will not enter the land. The traditional belief was that, strangely, Moses did mot make it to the land to which he had led the people, and this provides an explanation why.
Matthew 24.1-14 What’s Matthew about?
Matthew, who has seen the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, describes Jesus speaking forty years earlier about that looming disaster. Matthew understands Jesus to have continued to describe the difficulties of being a disciple in Matthew’s time, and encouraging the disciples to remain faithful because in that way God’s emerging kingdom will become clear.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ has taught us
that what we do for the least of your children
we do also for him.
Give us the will to serve others
as he was the servant of all,
who gave up his life and died for us,
but lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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the END is proclaiming the Good News everywere
That’s right! Same good news, but sometimes new ways of explaining or describing it for people in our times.