Thursday September 5 Pentecost 15
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Psalm 37 Part 2
God always rescues and protects those who are just, and the powerful evil people will soon be brought to nothing.
Job 16.16-22, 17.1, 13-16 What’s Job about?
Job insists he is innocent and the only one who can vouch for him is in heaven, but God does nothing. Even a neighbour would vouch for someone, but God does not. Will hope of being proved innocent go down to the grave with him?
John 9.1-17 What’s John about?
Jesus heals a blind man—obviously, in John’s gospel where everything means something, this man stands for all the blindness around when people do not “see” who Jesus is. Because it was a Sabbath when no work was to be done, Jesus is accused of breaking God’s law, and cannot therefore be the messiah. But some people agree he must be the messiah because nobody else could heal someone who had been blind from birth.
We who were formerly blind to the hope that arises from Jesus’ death and resurrection are able to insist that what we now see is real, even if we are unable to understand it. Jesus’ self-offering death and subsequent resurrection is the lens through which we see life clearly and that makes sense of our lives. We see what is going on.
This week’s collect:
Author and Giver of all good things,
graft in our hearts the love of your name,
increase in us true religion,
nourish us in all goodness,
and of your great mercy keep us in the same;
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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