Daily Office Readings for Friday of Proper 28: Year 1
Morning, Psalm 102; Evening, Psalm 107:1 to 32;
1st Maccabees 4:36 to 59; Revelation 22:6 to 13; Matthew 18:10 to 20:
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.” (Matthew 18:20)
In this talk Jesus has asks us to passionately confront any person whom we feel has wronged us, or anyone we have wronged. If the one on one doesn’t work, bring in two or three more for fairness sake. If that doesn’t work, consult the parish family, perhaps the pastor or priest. Jesus is setting up a way to bring us back together as in the one sheep that was lost in the lead story.
We are created social beings (like sheep). We need each other. When we are together, God is in the midst of us. God may have finished the heavens and the earth, but you and I are still a work in progress. It is not so much that we were created, but rather, we are being created. When any two of us are together in the faith, our Lord Jesus accompanies us and we become three. We become a trinity in the Lord. We just need to become more aware of God’s divine presence with us. It is in this way that we are blessed, and brought back, and belong. I know I am. Thank You Lord Jesus.
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done” (Genesis 2:1 and 2). So, for this evening and tomorrow day my friends, Shabbat Shalom.
As we listen to what the Spirit is saying to us, let us live to love, to serve, and to teach, while pondering anew what the Almighty can do. John
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