Wednesday November 24 Reign of Christ
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Psalm 128
Joy and prosperity come for those who seek God’s justice. Although the imagery is of abundance in family life, we may also experience that abundance in our sense of being full persons as we deepen our ability to care.
Psalm 129
We have been oppressed since our youth, but God ensures those who oppressed us will be defeated. They will be as useless as wheat growing on a roof, and nobody will wish them well.
We may have confidence that evil directions in our world will come to nothing.
Psalm 130
There isn’t much hope of us getting things right by ourselves. But I am waiting, as if in the darkness of night for the tinniest glimmer of dawn, for God to bring God’s loving kingdom into being.
Obadiah 15-21 What’s Obadiah about?
The poet imagines a time when God has thrown out the invaders and each of the tribes has taken possession of areas traditionally inhabited by foreigners. The image is that God’s justice will reign everywhere. We long for a time when God provides justice for all people who are oppressed everywhere.
Matthew 19: 23-30 What’s Matthew about?
As Jesus journeys toward his death in Jerusalem he tells his disciples that wealth has no bearing on one’s fulfilment. The disciples are astonished, because like us they believe that wealth provides many opportunities to be fulfilled. Jesus then promises that those who follow his way of justice and love for the unimportant, and give up their wealth to do so, will receive more life than they can imagine.
What’s normal in God’s world seems backwards in ours.
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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