Wednesday - Pentecost 7
Readings
Numbers 22:41 - 23:12
Romans 7:13-25
Matthew 21:33-46
Meditation
One of the key Lutheran paradoxes is simul iustus et pecccator or less priggish at the same time justified and a sinner. Martin Luther talks about it while discussing baptism. Baptism representing the entire Christian life - “the old Adam in us should by daily contrition and repentance be drowned and die…that a new man should daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness…” St. Paul is talking about the same thing in Romans. Who will deliver me from this body of death, this thing that keeps doing the things I don’t want, this old Adam. Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Jesus has delivered us from sin and the bondage to death that sin caused. Until the new creation we are both sinner and saint, but saint the justification is assured through the work of Christ. Baptism has drowned that sinner.
May the Lord grant you the strength to drown the sinner and arise a saint until he returns and remakes all of us.
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