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Friday of the Ninth Week After Trinity
Daily Lectionary: 1 Kings 3:1-15; 2 Corinthians 1:1-22
…who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Corinthians 1:4)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Jesus died and rose to conquer sin and death. One of the greatest gifts we have as Christians is that this promise and certain forgiveness is not just for us but for others as well. Let’s face it: You are surrounded with friends and family who are troubled by this world, and the hurt that they see and the death that they experience. What a joy that we can speak and tell them that Jesus has answered for that! As one pastor put it when asked, “How’s it going?” said, “Well, Jesus is risen from the dead so I guess everything’s going to work out fine.”
The Good News of Jesus’ death and resurrection really is meant to be a comfort. The world will make fun of you, of course, for that “pie-in-the-sky” self-help religious nonsense. But that’s only because the world is deep down truly afraid of death.
Think of the apostles. These men were terrified when Jesus died. They thought they had lost everything. They huddled together behind locked doors. When they had seen Jesus alive, they then went out and preached the Good News of repentance and forgiveness in Jesus’ Name, even when it meant being tortured and killed for doing so. They knew this comfort. It’s a comfort that declares that since Jesus died and rose, suffering and death just aren’t that big of a deal.
Of course, we make suffering and death out to be the most horrible things ever. Repent! As if Jesus didn’t take care of all that. We live as if Jesus didn’t actually conquer and overcome those things. But He did. And the comfort He has for you, and you have for others, comes and is strengthened as you remember your Baptism and live in the forgiveness delivered in His Word and Supper. And in those gifts you have not only the promise for you that it will all work out, you have the promise to tell others that it will be okay because of Jesus for them, too. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
From God’s joy can nothing sever, For I am His dear lamb, He, my Shepherd ever. I am His because He gave me His own blood For my good, By His death to save me. (Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me, LSB 756:4)
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By Higher Things®Daily Lectionary: 1 Kings 3:1-15; 2 Corinthians 1:1-22
…who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Corinthians 1:4)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Jesus died and rose to conquer sin and death. One of the greatest gifts we have as Christians is that this promise and certain forgiveness is not just for us but for others as well. Let’s face it: You are surrounded with friends and family who are troubled by this world, and the hurt that they see and the death that they experience. What a joy that we can speak and tell them that Jesus has answered for that! As one pastor put it when asked, “How’s it going?” said, “Well, Jesus is risen from the dead so I guess everything’s going to work out fine.”
The Good News of Jesus’ death and resurrection really is meant to be a comfort. The world will make fun of you, of course, for that “pie-in-the-sky” self-help religious nonsense. But that’s only because the world is deep down truly afraid of death.
Think of the apostles. These men were terrified when Jesus died. They thought they had lost everything. They huddled together behind locked doors. When they had seen Jesus alive, they then went out and preached the Good News of repentance and forgiveness in Jesus’ Name, even when it meant being tortured and killed for doing so. They knew this comfort. It’s a comfort that declares that since Jesus died and rose, suffering and death just aren’t that big of a deal.
Of course, we make suffering and death out to be the most horrible things ever. Repent! As if Jesus didn’t take care of all that. We live as if Jesus didn’t actually conquer and overcome those things. But He did. And the comfort He has for you, and you have for others, comes and is strengthened as you remember your Baptism and live in the forgiveness delivered in His Word and Supper. And in those gifts you have not only the promise for you that it will all work out, you have the promise to tell others that it will be okay because of Jesus for them, too. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
From God’s joy can nothing sever, For I am His dear lamb, He, my Shepherd ever. I am His because He gave me His own blood For my good, By His death to save me. (Why Should Cross and Trial Grieve Me, LSB 756:4)