Monday January 16 Epiphany 2
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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.
Isaiah 44: 6-8, 21-23 What’s Isaiah about?
There is no other God like this God who can actually do things now and in the future. God dares the other gods to say they knew what God would do before God did it, but the other gods cannot. They do not control history, neither in the past nor in the future. But the true God has expunged all Israel’s evil, and all creation will rejoice that God has brought the people home!
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 emerges in the form of a new community built around Jesus. Jesus calls 12 disciples because this is the symbolic number of the complete Jewish community—12 tribes descended from Jacob’s 12 sons. The kingdom has truly arrived!
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,
your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ
is the light of the world.
May your people,
illumined by your word and sacraments,
shine with the radiance of his glory,
that he may be known, worshipped, and obeyed
to the ends of the earth;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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