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Saturday of the Second Week of Easter
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 32:1-14; Luke 6:20-38
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Alleluia. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made. Alleluia! (Psalm 33:5–6, from the Introit for Easter 3)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. In the beginning God spoke, and in His speaking, He created the heavens and the earth. “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). What God makes is good because He calls it good.
But it did not remain good. There was a certain tree, which God said would give the knowledge of good and evil. Had Adam obeyed God’s Word and done what was good, he would have known only good. The earth was full of the goodness of the Lord. But it would not last.
Adam and his wife introduced evil into God’s good creation by doubting God’s Word, the Word that made the heavens and the earth. They listened to another word, a word that cannot create anything but disorder and disaster.
So God sent His Word into the flesh. He dwelt among us. We beheld His glory, glory as of the one and only of the Father. This Word, who was the author of everything good in the beginning, allowed Himself to be crucified by sinful men.
But out of this greatest evil the Word of God authored the world’s greatest good. By His death He destroyed the power of death, and by His resurrection He brought life and immortality to light. At the preaching of the cross and empty grave, the earth is again full of the goodness of the Lord, as He makes all things new. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
Christ, the song of Love incarnate, Touching earth with heaven’s grace, For Your living, suff’ring, dying, For Your rising, hear our praise! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ, Redeemer, Lord of life! (Voices Raised to You We Offer, LSB 795:3)
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By Higher Things®Daily Lectionary: Exodus 32:1-14; Luke 6:20-38
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Alleluia. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made. Alleluia! (Psalm 33:5–6, from the Introit for Easter 3)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. In the beginning God spoke, and in His speaking, He created the heavens and the earth. “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). What God makes is good because He calls it good.
But it did not remain good. There was a certain tree, which God said would give the knowledge of good and evil. Had Adam obeyed God’s Word and done what was good, he would have known only good. The earth was full of the goodness of the Lord. But it would not last.
Adam and his wife introduced evil into God’s good creation by doubting God’s Word, the Word that made the heavens and the earth. They listened to another word, a word that cannot create anything but disorder and disaster.
So God sent His Word into the flesh. He dwelt among us. We beheld His glory, glory as of the one and only of the Father. This Word, who was the author of everything good in the beginning, allowed Himself to be crucified by sinful men.
But out of this greatest evil the Word of God authored the world’s greatest good. By His death He destroyed the power of death, and by His resurrection He brought life and immortality to light. At the preaching of the cross and empty grave, the earth is again full of the goodness of the Lord, as He makes all things new. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
Christ, the song of Love incarnate, Touching earth with heaven’s grace, For Your living, suff’ring, dying, For Your rising, hear our praise! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ, Redeemer, Lord of life! (Voices Raised to You We Offer, LSB 795:3)