Thursday October 14 Pentecost 20
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Psalm 18 Part 2
The first half of this long psalm used images from the escape through the Red Sea to celebrate God’s rescue of us. This second half speaks of our faithfulness (understood to be a way of doing justice) which has been made possible because of our being rescued. The psalm goes on to use the imagery of total military victory as a symbol of the victory that God’s justice will have and how deeply we rejoice in that victory.
Jeremiah 38: 1-13 What’s Jeremiah about?
Jeremiah continues to insist that Jerusalem will be invaded as the consequence of the kings’ long history of being unfaithful to the God of justice. Court officials who believe they can defeat the Chaldeans (and thus avoid the consequences of abandoning justice) persuade the king to imprison Jeremiah in an underground cistern. But when Jeremiah is in danger of dying there, the king allows him to be rescued. There is still hope that the king may return to the God of justice.
Matthew 10: 34-42 What’s Matthew about?
Following Jesus will set a person into a whole new perspective and life priorities, often in opposition to many things that would be considered normal. This will be painful but the outcome will be to be fully alive. By losing our former inadequate life we will receive full and unending life.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
in our baptism you adopted us for your own.
Quicken, we pray, your Spirit within us,
that we, being renewed both in body and mind,
may worship you in sincerity and truth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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