May
the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
May
the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
...
May
he grant you your heart's desire
and
fulfill all your plans!
...
Some
trust in chariots and some in horses,
but
we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
(Psalm
20: 1, 4, 7)
Goodness
gracious! Abraham is really having trouble getting this through his head. What
was he thinking when he tells Abimelech that Sarah is his sister? This is
indeed the question Abimelech puts to him. But then we see Abraham uses it to
introduce Abimelech to God and Abraham lets Abimelech know that Sarah is indeed
his (half) sister. In the end God has used this for good.
What
do you think about this reading from Luke? Isn’t it interesting that Jesus says
we interpret the weather by the signs we see, but we do not make the effort to
interpret the signs of our time, and why do we take our quarrels to the court
when we could take care of it ourselves on the way?
Today,
our reading ends with a story of a fig tree that hadn’t born any fruit for
three years – the owner gets tired of it taking us space in his garden and says
cut it down...but the gardener says no wait, I’ll give it extra care this one
last year...and we can wait and see if it produces fruit after that. What do
these two tales have to do with one another? How shall we interpret the times
around us, how shall we resolve our differences in such a way that we bear
fruit for the owner and the gardener?
Today’s
readings: Psalm 20, Genesis 20, 1 Chronicles 23 & 24, Luke 12:49-13:9
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