Daily Lectionary Reading for September 17, 2010 Psalm 55
Esther 1:1-4, 10-19
Acts 17:1-15
John 12:36b-43
*note - In a confused state I put Saturday's readings on Friday so I've redated Friday so that it is correct and am going back and picking up Friday's readings - the completist in me can make no other choice.
Acts 17:1-15
One of those great, great verses here. Paul and Silas are doing the usual preaching and teaching and stirring things up and a group of believers is taken before the authorities. The accusers say, "These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also."(v.6b) What exactly are they saying that's turning things upside down. "The are all acting contrary to the decrees of the emperor, saying that there is another king named Jesus." So essentially, they are in big trouble for telling the truth of things. A call to us to remember who the king is and that when we say it sometimes it will be recieved with joy and sometimes it will be poorly received by those who might imagine that they are, or work for, the king.
John 12:36b-43
Follows the above nicely. A discussion of those who experience the work of Christ and are blind to what it means. The concluding verses are one that is a caution to us in our discipleship - "Buyt because of the Pharisees they did not confess for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue, for they loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God."(vs.42b-43) That human glory can be seductive stuff.
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