Saturday, May 2, 2009

Lectionary for 5/2/09

Today's readings are Exodus 40.17-38 and Luke 8.40-56.

See today how the presence of God changes everything?  We have a tent of meeting and a tabernacle which is so filled with God's presence that nobody is able to go there.  Our Lord is a great and consuming fire.  What of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?  See how the second person of the Trinity, the man Jesus, the mediator God has provided between God and man, can be approached.  People crowd around him and receive his mercy and grace just by jostling him in the crowd.  And when Jesus goes to heal the little girl it doesn't matter how sick or dead she might be.  He heals her anyway.

What a Lord we have, who comes to us in our deadness and brings us life, who heals all our ills, who bears all our sins, and who allows us access to the Lord whom we could never approach otherwise.


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