Tuesday August 27 Pentecost 14
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Psalm 10
A plea to God to act to help the poor and a complaint that God is not acting. Trust that God will act.
Psalm 11
People tell me to run away, but I trust in God and I am sure that God will act to save me.
Job 6.1-4, 8-15, 21 What’s Job about?
Job insists that his suffering is beyond bearing and wishes that God would kill him and thus prove that he has been the object of undeserved suffering. Job points out that his friends have abandoned him by insisting that he has caused his own suffering, because they are afraid of the implications of humans suffering without reason and of God allowing that.
John 6.60-71 What’s John about?
Jesus insists that he is food. Some disciples leave because of this, and Jesus responds that some are called by God to respond. The opposition, in the form of Judas Iscariot, continues, foreshadowing Jesus’ crucifixion. The twelve remain with him because there is nobody who makes more sense than Jesus.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
we are taught by your word
that all our doings without love are worth nothing.
Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts
that most excellent gift of love,
the true bond of peace and of all virtue;
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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