Wednesday August 4 Pentecost 10
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Psalm 81
Praise to God because this is what we heard God saying: God longs that the people would respond so that God could give them everything they need.
Psalm 82
God is accusing all the other gods who do not care for the poor. Hurry up, God, and take your place as the just ruler of the whole world.
There are many gods today who care nothing for the poor. We, too, are to cultivate longing for the God of justice to rule.
2 Samuel 9: 1-13 What’s Samuel about?
King David seeks a descendant of King Saul to honour as he had promised Jonathan he would. Jonathan had a son and even though he is severely crippled, a disability which would normally preclude him from any place in a royal family, David provides him permanent residence with the royal family in his own palace. All this continues to describe how David affirmed God’s original choice of king for Israel even despite Saul’s grandson being severely disabled.
Mark 8: 34- 9:1 What’s Mark about?
Jesus speaks dramatically and with undeniable clarity, about the fact that there will be a cost for being part of the kingdom, but says that regardless of our reluctance to make such sacrifices, we will see the resurrection and the kingdom happening anyway.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry
with the bread of his life
and the word of his kingdom.
Renew your people with your heavenly grace,
and in all our weakness
sustain us by your true and living bread,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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