Monday November 21 Reign of Christ
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Psalm 106 Part 1
God, you are wonderful, but we have done wicked things. God, you acted with immense generosity when you rescued the people from Egypt, but the people stopped trusting in you, and there were terrible consequences, yet you continued rescuing them. The second half of this psalm has a long list of such examples and concludes with a plea for God to continue rescuing us despite our wickedness.
Zechariah 10.1-12 What’s Zechariah about?
Zechariah writes after the people have returned from exile about 500 years before Christ. These passages are chosen in light of Advent coming soon, because Zechariah imagined God returning to rescue Jerusalem and early Christians applied his images to John the Baptist and Jesus.
Luke 18.15-30 What’s Luke about?
Jesus takes children as models for our attitude to the kingdom – we are to know how much we need it and are unable to arrive by our own ability. He challenges a wealthy leader to be extremely generous to the poor, and the leader refuses. The disciples object that this is an impossible request. Jesus agrees but says anything is possible for God – so we should be prepared for God to ask the impossibly generous of us and we will be enabled to respond.
This week’s collect:
Almighty and everlasting God,
whose will it is to restore all things
in your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King,
grant that the peoples of the earth,
now divided and enslaved by sin,
may be freed and brought together
under his gentle and loving rule;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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