Tuesday November 23 Reign of Christ
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Psalm 124
We would have been destroyed in Egypt if God hadn’t been acting on our behalf. A beautiful short psalm of appreciation.
Psalm 125
A prayer that God will continue to protect God’s people by being like the protective hills around Jerusalem. God’s protection included ensuring that good people don’t turn to selfishness under pressure.
Psalm 126
Joyful memories of when they escaped from captivity by God’s act, and returned to their land. A prayer that God will do it again.
Psalm 127
It is useless to trust your own hard work—it is God who makes your household succeed.
Nahum 1: 1-13 What’s Nahum about?
We continue to read a selection of prophecies that express trust in God’s power to remove oppressive regimes. Here the poet imagines God’s power in storms and great waters and mountains being used to release Israel from captivity. As we celebrate the reign of Christ this week, we see how God’s victory has been experienced in other times.
Matthew 19: 13-22 What’s Matthew about?
The implications of taking Jesus seriously are that one’s whole life will change. We will give great dignity to “children” who are people without much power. The poor, who are perhaps also “children” in another sense, are to be our priority, but the rich young man refuses. Sometimes we are not ready to make that commitment even though it will give us full life.
This week’s collect:
Almighty and everlasting God,
whose will it is to restore all things
in your well-beloved Son, our Lord and King,
grant that the peoples of the earth,
now divided and enslaved by sin,
may be freed and brought together
under his gentle and loving rule;
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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