Thursday November 14 Pentecost 25
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Psalm 83
We are under terrible attack. God, act quickly and utterly defeat them. We can say the same: that our world is under attack from forces of greed and exploitation, and we desperately need to be rescued. We can interpret the almost violent images in this psalm, as an expression of our deep determination that nothing will overcome the work of justice, inclusion and dignity for all. If our culture felt that strongly about dignity of all, what a wonderful world we would live in!
Joel 2.21-27 What’s Joel about?
Even the animals are to rejoice along with the people that God will protect everyone.
Luke 15.1-2, 11-32 What’s Luke about?
Jesus tells the story of a father rejoicing when his morally lost son who had shamed him returns home. Yet the good brother will not rejoice. Do we rejoice when those who were never part of the church are welcomed and are we OK with not being the centre of attention in that case? If so, then we are truly in the kingdom.
This week’s collect:
Eternal God,
who caused all holy scriptures
to be written for our learning,
grant us so to hear them,
read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them,
that we may embrace and ever hold fast
the blessed hope of everlasting life,
which you have given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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