Sunday September 29 Pentecost 19
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Psalm 19
The first half of this psalm imagines each day telling the next day and each night telling the next night about God’s glory, and of the sun rising out of the sea praising God and running around the sky like an athletic sprinter showing off. The second half of the psalm says that goodness and integrity are as sure and powerful as the sun.
Psalm 46
Neither storms of water or storms of war will shake me because I know that God is behind all the world. Like a river flowing through the city, God is always in our midst. The refrain, “The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold.” expresses this confidence over and over.
Hosea 2.2-14 What’s Hosea about?
God speaks to the country as if the country were God’s wife who had committed adultery, and God describes the horrific consequences. Nevertheless God will take her into a private place and be tender to her—an act of unimaginable tenderness and generosity at that time.
Matthew 13.44-52 What’s Matthew about?
Jesus, as often in Matthew, calls for absolute commitment to the gospel like that of a business person to making a profit. Those who are not deeply committed to Jesus’ way will not experience the life of Christ.
This week’s collect:
Grant, O merciful God,
that your Church,
being gathered by your Holy Spirit into one,
may show forth your power among all peoples,
to the glory of your name;
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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