Daily Lectionary for September 18, 2010
Psalm 128
Esther 2:5-8, 15-23
Acts 17:16-34
John 12:44-50
Acts 17:16-34 and John 12:44-50
"And whoever sees me sees him who sent me."(v.45)
Simple. Jesus acts and in his obedient action creates a window through which he points beyond himself to God. Jesus is not about pointing to Jesus, except in those ways where pointing to himself illuminates God beyond himself. We won't reach that point, but it's worth aspiring to point beyond ourselves on occasion. The Acts passage is Paul's encounter with the Athenians on the topic of their many gods. Paul's aim to point beyond himself and beyond these gods to the living God. He's passionate about it - driven. Praying that I can be passionate about things that point beyond myself to the God in whom, as the Acts passage puts it, "we live and move and have our being".(v.28)
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