Friday - Pentecost 4
Readings
Ecclesiastes 11:9 - 12:14
Galatians 5:25 - 6:10
Matthew 16:21-28
Meditation
Today is the last day of the Ecclesiastes readings. Thank God for small mercies. The Preacher’s words are hard because as a 21st century American we are youth obsessed and always hopeful in the new new thing. And even through that cultural filter, we know instinctively that these words are true. The law is written on our hearts. The Preacher’s final summation, let you heart cheer over such things, but know that God is judge. Pure law. The Judge that terrified Martin Luther.
Becuase we all face that judge, we should as Paul says, bear each other’s burdens. In the end, the burden in the same, in helping others we also bear our own burden, we all go to the judge that hidden God. But as Christians we have a great revealed joy. That judge we dread when hidden has been revealed as Christ himself. The good shepherd who gave himself for us. We don’t have to fear. We aren’t in the dark as the preacher of Ecclesiastes becuase everything has been revealed to us in Jesus. So bear on anothers burdens and fulfill the law of Christ - the man who carried our burden.
May the Lord grant you a willing heart to hear his Word and bear each others burdens.
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