Because yesterday's reading was so powerful, I can't help but note that it encourages me greatly this morning.
"For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what it sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all nations."
Isaiah 61:11
It is a natural function of God to bring forth righteousness and praise-- it is the nature of God to do so-- I want to be open and courageous enough to participate in that outworking of righteousness and praise whenever God offers me the opportunity to do so.
Oh-- praying for courage, again!
Regarding today's reading [Matthew 21:23-27], am I wrong to find this exchange amusing? Jesus was God, for heaven's sake, and the religious authorities try to "get" him with a trick question-- Jesus adroitly turns the tables and leaves them, foiled again.
Jesus is never mean or condescending. But it seems he always knew the right response to every question. Partly I guess because he completely knew the person he was talking to in a way that I cannot. It's like he always knew the question beneath the question and responded accordingly.
Sacred Space asks: "Do I let fear run my life? Do I make decisions on the basis of preserving my position and power? Can I talk to Jesus about this and ask for the grace to be free, as he was?"
What do you think?
1 comment:
I love that Isaiah 61 passage. I love the inevitability of the righteousness and praise. Just like the garden. I don't do anything but stick things in the ground. But beautiful things come up every spring!
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