Readings for Wednesday July 7

Wednesday July 7          Pentecost 6

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Psalm 12
Everyone has abandoned truth and justice. I stand alone against this injustice. It is when God sees injustice that God acts. Save us, God, evil is prevailing.

Psalm 13
God seems to be absent, and not helping, but I long that God will. Then I will rejoice!

Psalm 14
Everybody has abandoned the God of justice. When God acts there will be great rejoicing.

1 Samuel 16: 1-13                            What’s Samuel about?
God decides to choose another king, and sends Samuel to select another young boy. God protects Samuel from Saul who will certainly kill anyone plotting treason. Samuel travels to Bethlehem where, against all expectation, he anoints the youngest and least experienced boy, named David, to be king.

God continues to choose those who will best understand why we must uphold those with least power, and the story-tellers continue the long tradition of God choosing the least likely person (remember Joseph the youngest brother, and Moses who was to be killed as an infant). Indeed, the Israelites themselves were the poorest and least likely community to be called by God.

Luke 24: 13-35                            What’s Luke about?
In the late afternoon of Easter Day, two disciples, who are in grief about Jesus having been executed, are joined by Jesus on their walk back from Jerusalem. They only recognize who it is when he breaks the bread in their house. Early Christians understood this to be a communion service which is one of the forms in which we experience Jesus’ resurrection. The two disciples return to Jerusalem in joy to tell the others.

While the Eucharist is usually associated with the last supper, it is also a re-enactment of this event—when our journey is very dark, we may find ourselves surprised by joy and the presence of the risen Christ who has been next to us all along. Eucharists encourage us in that expectation.

This week’s collect:

Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ has taught us
that what we do for the least of your children
we do also for him.
Give us the will to serve others
as he was the servant of all,
who gave up his life and died for us,
but lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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