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Friday of the Third Week after the Epiphany
Daily Lectionary: Zechariah 10:1-11:3; 2 Timothy 3:1-17
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it. (2 Timothy 3:14)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The prediction of dark and latter days is more than a “Don’t say I didn’t warn you” from on high. It isn’t even a recognition that evil will always oppose the truth, coupled with a challenge to be ready. It’s more fundamental. The truth will always stand against evil. The truth was there first. The evil didn’t come until later. In the beginning was the way, the truth, the life. In the beginning was God. All the evil, in contrast to the power of God, is folly. Christ brought the evil to nothing on the Cross. Sin is forgiven. The devil, defeated. Death, destroyed. Don’t be afraid.
This isn’t a revelation of who the bad men are. It’s about who we are. Christianity is about Jesus’ saving sinners through a cross. We take shelter under the Cross. Crosses hurt. To be close to the Cross is to…hurt. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t working. It means that it is.
We live in dark and latter days. The world has gone insane. It points to us and yells that we’re the crazy ones. “You are not like us.” It’s so constant and so loud. Our faith, our cross, our resurrection, our law, our Gospel, our Sacraments: It all honestly starts to sound crazy sometimes.
So Paul tells Timothy to hold on to sanity by remembering who he learned it from. Remember Jesus. The world has gone crazy. They yell with one voice. But they can’t yell your Savior into the tomb again. The Scriptures attest to Jesus. Remember Jesus so that you know righteousness. Know that you already have it. Know that crazy can rise from the dead. Jesus is Lord. Then lean into it. The Scriptures are profitable to rebuke and teach and correct crazy. They teach a Law that makes us seem insane, and even more, a resurrection that names us sane. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Harrison Goodman
Thy strong Word bespeaks us righteous; Bright with Thine own holiness, Glorious now, we press toward glory, And our lives our hopes confess. Alleluia, alleluia! Praise to Thee who light dost send! Alleluia, alleluia! Alleluia without end! (Thy Strong Word, LSB 578:3)
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By Higher Things®Daily Lectionary: Zechariah 10:1-11:3; 2 Timothy 3:1-17
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it. (2 Timothy 3:14)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The prediction of dark and latter days is more than a “Don’t say I didn’t warn you” from on high. It isn’t even a recognition that evil will always oppose the truth, coupled with a challenge to be ready. It’s more fundamental. The truth will always stand against evil. The truth was there first. The evil didn’t come until later. In the beginning was the way, the truth, the life. In the beginning was God. All the evil, in contrast to the power of God, is folly. Christ brought the evil to nothing on the Cross. Sin is forgiven. The devil, defeated. Death, destroyed. Don’t be afraid.
This isn’t a revelation of who the bad men are. It’s about who we are. Christianity is about Jesus’ saving sinners through a cross. We take shelter under the Cross. Crosses hurt. To be close to the Cross is to…hurt. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t working. It means that it is.
We live in dark and latter days. The world has gone insane. It points to us and yells that we’re the crazy ones. “You are not like us.” It’s so constant and so loud. Our faith, our cross, our resurrection, our law, our Gospel, our Sacraments: It all honestly starts to sound crazy sometimes.
So Paul tells Timothy to hold on to sanity by remembering who he learned it from. Remember Jesus. The world has gone crazy. They yell with one voice. But they can’t yell your Savior into the tomb again. The Scriptures attest to Jesus. Remember Jesus so that you know righteousness. Know that you already have it. Know that crazy can rise from the dead. Jesus is Lord. Then lean into it. The Scriptures are profitable to rebuke and teach and correct crazy. They teach a Law that makes us seem insane, and even more, a resurrection that names us sane. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Harrison Goodman
Thy strong Word bespeaks us righteous; Bright with Thine own holiness, Glorious now, we press toward glory, And our lives our hopes confess. Alleluia, alleluia! Praise to Thee who light dost send! Alleluia, alleluia! Alleluia without end! (Thy Strong Word, LSB 578:3)