Friday April 30 Easter 4
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Psalm 40
All my life God lifted me up and I rejoiced in God’s care. But now my own sin, and my enemies, have nearly destroyed me. Do not wait any longer, God!
Psalm 54
I am in dire straights. Put everything back to right, God. I praise you, because you have done that.
Wisdom 6: 12-23 What’s Wisdom about?
Wisdom is being imaged as a divine being who seeks relationship with humanity, and two hundred years after this was written the concept was picked up by early Christians who developed the idea as Holy Spirit who remains with us after the physical life of Jesus is over. We are to think about how we would cultivate a relationship with holy Wisdom.
Luke 7: 1-17 What’s Luke about?
Jesus is amazed that a non-Jewish Roman general understands his authority over disease better than the Jewish people themselves. Luke often speaks of Romans who are sympathetic to the early Christians. Jesus then exercises authority over a death which would have left a mother destitute without male support of either a husband or a son. Two unlikely people, one with power and one without any, both experience God’s rule breaking in on them. God’s kingdom really is arriving!
This week’s collect:
O God of peace,
who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ,
that great shepherd of the sheep,
by the blood of the eternal covenant,
make us perfect in every good work to do your will,
and work in us that which is well-pleasing in your sight;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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