If you were unable to be with us this past Sunday, you may want to request the CD of Allan Karr's message. While we present the texts for the upcoming Sunday in our right sidebar, we may mistakenly communicate that what we are about is getting ready for Sunday. So, in light of that very real likelihood, we will change our posts about the texts for the coming Sunday to, "Shaping Us Toward Monday."
We hope this shift is a regular reminder we hope to be shaped by the Spirit of God through our interactions with the Scripture to live out our lives in Way of Jesus. For instance, it would be very easy for us to think a ritual is more important than a person. Jesus faced just such an instance yet again in the Luke passage for this week. He healed on the Sabbath and the boundary keepers could not tolerate their "day" being denigrated in that way.
Jesus' retort was to suggest the in-congruency that a day set aside for honoring God would mean the neglect of people in need. He then follows with a parable that gets at the heart of our natural tendency to think only of our own advancement.
Draw in the Jeremiah passage and you get the idea the pattern is oft repeated. God's people refused the provision of God and instead dug cisterns of their own, those that would not hold water. They both shunned the living water of God and failed to provide for their own needs. Relaying the words of God, the prophet suggests these actions represented two evils.
How would you draw in the passage from Hebrews? The Psalms?
As you are reading the texts for the coming Sunday, keep Monday in view. for it is Monday that tells what influence the Way of Jesus has really had and is having on us.
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