St. Mark’s Lutheran

Readings
Job 19:1-7,14-27
Acts 13:13-25
John 9:18-41

Meditation
Today’s passage gives us a really neat view of the the Jewish synagog roots of our worship life. On the Sabbath day they went to the synagog…after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagog asked Paul & Barnabus to exhort the people. A gathering, reading of the law which we would term the OT lesson, a reading of the prophets which we would term the epistle lesson and an exhortation or what we call a sermon or a homily is you have a catholic upbringing. That’s the core of worship life. Reading from the written Word and the speaking of the Oral Word applying it to our communal lives and times. Everything else is adornment. The people of God, or the people of Israel gather to hear the Word.

And that is what Paul does. Paul retells the salvation story to those people of Israel and the God-fearers (gentiles) in their midst. God made a great people and took them out of bondage. He guided them and let them go astray under conquest and judges and kings. He promised an everlasting throne to David, and established that throne in Jesus. Of that one, Jesus, all the law and the prophets, including John the Baptist, the one who lived in our own time, they all testify to Jesus as the fulfillment of God’s promises and of all Israel.

May the Lord grant you the times and the ability to read, hear, ponder and inwardly digest His Word for your lives.

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