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Monday of the Tenth Week After Trinity
Today’s Reading: Jeremiah 8:4-12
Daily Lectionary: 1 Kings 8:22-30,46-63; 2 Corinthians 4:1-18
“Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.” (Jeremiah 8:7)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. God says in the Third Commandment, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” We know that this means that “We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it.” The problem is we don’t. So often we don’t care about the Lord’s Word. We don’t really listen to it. We begrudgingly go to church to receive. We don’t even read it on our own! We sing so often, “Alleluia! Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Alleluia!” But do we really take them to heart and believe them, and if we believe them, do we live them?
The wild animals listen to His Word. They follow the seasons He controls. They migrate. They are fruitful and multiply according to His Word and will. The animals listen more to what He says than we do. We’re worse off than the beasts of the field or the birds of the air. As David says, “I was foolish and ignorant; I was a beast of burden before You” (Psalm 73:22).
This is exactly why Christ Jesus had to come. He always heard and did God’s Word. He listened and so He bore our sins against His Word, He was crucified for them, shed His blood for them, died for them, and rose on the Third Day so that you would be perfect, holy, and righteous—justified—before God, your heavenly Father.
Now that we’re in Him we joyfully hear His Word. We receive it with joy and gladness. We can’t get enough of it. It’s been washed over our foreheads, placed into our ears and hearts, and placed in our mouths. The Word is powerful and we receive it through font, Keys, pulpit, and altar. There’s always more Word for you. We receive it, we believe it, we live it, in Christ Jesus. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
God’s Word is our great heritage And shall be ours forever; To spread its light from age to age Shall be our chief endeavor. Through life it guides our way, In death it is our stay. Lord, grant, while worlds endure, We keep its teachings pure throughout all generations. (God’s Word Is Our Great Heritage, LSB 581)
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By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: Jeremiah 8:4-12
Daily Lectionary: 1 Kings 8:22-30,46-63; 2 Corinthians 4:1-18
“Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.” (Jeremiah 8:7)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. God says in the Third Commandment, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” We know that this means that “We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it.” The problem is we don’t. So often we don’t care about the Lord’s Word. We don’t really listen to it. We begrudgingly go to church to receive. We don’t even read it on our own! We sing so often, “Alleluia! Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Alleluia!” But do we really take them to heart and believe them, and if we believe them, do we live them?
The wild animals listen to His Word. They follow the seasons He controls. They migrate. They are fruitful and multiply according to His Word and will. The animals listen more to what He says than we do. We’re worse off than the beasts of the field or the birds of the air. As David says, “I was foolish and ignorant; I was a beast of burden before You” (Psalm 73:22).
This is exactly why Christ Jesus had to come. He always heard and did God’s Word. He listened and so He bore our sins against His Word, He was crucified for them, shed His blood for them, died for them, and rose on the Third Day so that you would be perfect, holy, and righteous—justified—before God, your heavenly Father.
Now that we’re in Him we joyfully hear His Word. We receive it with joy and gladness. We can’t get enough of it. It’s been washed over our foreheads, placed into our ears and hearts, and placed in our mouths. The Word is powerful and we receive it through font, Keys, pulpit, and altar. There’s always more Word for you. We receive it, we believe it, we live it, in Christ Jesus. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
God’s Word is our great heritage And shall be ours forever; To spread its light from age to age Shall be our chief endeavor. Through life it guides our way, In death it is our stay. Lord, grant, while worlds endure, We keep its teachings pure throughout all generations. (God’s Word Is Our Great Heritage, LSB 581)