Monday November 25 Reign of Christ
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Psalm 106 Part 1
God, you are wonderful, but we have done wicked things. God, you acted with immense generosity when you rescued the people from Egypt, but the people stopped trusting in you, and there were terrible consequences, yet you continued rescuing them. The second half of this psalm has a long list of such examples and concludes with a plea for God to continue rescuing us despite our wickedness.
Psalm 123
We keep our eyes trained on God’s direction to us, like servants alert to their owner’s slightest hand signal. We are oppressed by the wealthy and we anticipate God’s signal at any moment that God will act.
Zechariah 10.1-12 What’s Zechariah about?
The leaders, like incompetent and selfish shepherds, have mis-led the people, but God will come and empower the people and they will be victorious and return with joy to Jerusalem.
Early Christians interpreted Hebrew Bible passages such as this as having been written in anticipation of the coming of Jesus and the reference to the thirty shekels of silver may have influenced the story of Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, the “lamb of God.”
Luke 18.15-30 What’s Luke about?
Jesus takes children as models for our attitude to the kingdom – we are to know how much we need it and are unable to arrive by our own ability. He challenges a wealthy leader to be extremely generous to the poor, and the leader refuses. The disciples object that this is an impossible request. Jesus agrees but says anything is possible for God – so we should be prepared for God to ask the impossibly generous of us and we will be enabled to respond.
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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