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Thursday of the Second Week after the Epiphany
Today’s Reading: Romans 12:6-16
Daily Lectionary: Joel 2:18-32; Romans 11:25-12:13
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. (Romans 12:9)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. If you are in Christ, the Law is not about you. You need not earn your salvation. He has won it for you. It’s finished, and there’s nothing left to add to it. The Law still applies, but now it’s about your view of your neighbor. Love actually looks like something. Love for neighbor takes flesh, but differently in each person. We call it vocation. Paul outlines the gifts God would give to your neighbor through you.
We turn a gift into a curse. Sinners take the gifts and try to measure them, to outdo one another in showing honor. It’s hard to measure that unless you’re looking at yourself.
It’s so tempting to compare yourself to others. The Law is great for that. but the Law always accuses. There will always be someone doing more. I cannot give as much. I cannot work as hard. I cannot teach as well. We’re so desperate to make the Law about us, even when it kills us. Lord, have mercy. He does. He fulfills the Law for you. He serves your neighbor through you. If you are in Christ, the Law is not about you. The gifts Paul talks about aren’t about you. It’s all about your neighbor.
Your gifts will differ from someone else’s. That doesn’t make you less holy or your help for neighbor any less. Christ already accomplished your holiness. Let love be genuine. That means look to Jesus and stop measuring yourself. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Serve the people God gave you in the vocations He has placed you in. Genuine love only comes from the Cross, so start there. Breathe. The Law isn’t about you anymore. Hold fast to what is good. Hold fast to the gifts of God. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Harrison Goodman
Son of God, eternal Savior, Source of life and truth and grace, Word made flesh, whose birth among us Hallows all our human race: By Your praying, by Your willing That Your people should be one, Grant, O grant our hope’s fruition: Here on earth Your will be done. (Son of God, Eternal Savior, LSB 842:4)
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By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: Romans 12:6-16
Daily Lectionary: Joel 2:18-32; Romans 11:25-12:13
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. (Romans 12:9)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. If you are in Christ, the Law is not about you. You need not earn your salvation. He has won it for you. It’s finished, and there’s nothing left to add to it. The Law still applies, but now it’s about your view of your neighbor. Love actually looks like something. Love for neighbor takes flesh, but differently in each person. We call it vocation. Paul outlines the gifts God would give to your neighbor through you.
We turn a gift into a curse. Sinners take the gifts and try to measure them, to outdo one another in showing honor. It’s hard to measure that unless you’re looking at yourself.
It’s so tempting to compare yourself to others. The Law is great for that. but the Law always accuses. There will always be someone doing more. I cannot give as much. I cannot work as hard. I cannot teach as well. We’re so desperate to make the Law about us, even when it kills us. Lord, have mercy. He does. He fulfills the Law for you. He serves your neighbor through you. If you are in Christ, the Law is not about you. The gifts Paul talks about aren’t about you. It’s all about your neighbor.
Your gifts will differ from someone else’s. That doesn’t make you less holy or your help for neighbor any less. Christ already accomplished your holiness. Let love be genuine. That means look to Jesus and stop measuring yourself. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Serve the people God gave you in the vocations He has placed you in. Genuine love only comes from the Cross, so start there. Breathe. The Law isn’t about you anymore. Hold fast to what is good. Hold fast to the gifts of God. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Harrison Goodman
Son of God, eternal Savior, Source of life and truth and grace, Word made flesh, whose birth among us Hallows all our human race: By Your praying, by Your willing That Your people should be one, Grant, O grant our hope’s fruition: Here on earth Your will be done. (Son of God, Eternal Savior, LSB 842:4)