Monday June 7 Pentecost 2
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Psalm 56
In the face of intense attack by evil, we trust that God will act for what is right.
Psalm 57
Another psalm expressing our trust that God will act for what is right in the face of intense attack by evil.
Psalm 58
An impassioned plea for evil to be overcome. We should read the violence not literally but as an expression of our determination that good will prevail.
Deuteronomy 30.1-10 What’s Deuteronomy about?
As we approach the end of our readings from Deuteronomy Moses speaks to the people of how much God longs to give them fulfillment in the land, and that God will write the desire to follow God’s justice on their hearts so that they will want to be just and not follow the greed represented by other gods.
For those returning from exile in Babylon where they had begun to assimilate themselves into a culture not based on justice but on greed, this assurance would have been very good news indeed. It is equally good news for us in a time in which desire for power and wealth surrounds us everywhere.
Luke 18: 31-43 What’s Luke about?
Jesus insists on travelling to Jerusalem where he will be killed. His disciples choose not to understand how this expresses his leadership of love. A blind man, who symbolizes the disciples’ blindness, then insists on being healed, and his new-found sight symbolizes how the disciples will eventually “see” that God’s character is being revealed in Jesus’ loving death.
Like the disciples, we may also be reluctant to follow Jesus’ subversive actions in undermining the world’s reliance on power and violence, and it may take us a while before we “see” that self-offering love is the only way that we and all humanity can have full life.
This week’s collect:
O God,
you have assured the human family of eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Deliver us from the death of sin
and raise us to new life in him,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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