Where we have come from (readings for Sunday 14th July)
Deuteronomy 30.9-14
Psalm 25.1-10
Colossians 1.1-14
Luke 10.25-37
readings for today
Psalm 25.11-20
Proverbs.1-17
I John 3.11-17
thought for today
Its often hard to pick out a theme from a reading from proverbs, with a whole bunch of unconnected sayings tumbling one after the other. And sometimes like today, even when there is a theme to some of them, poverty, they each seem to be saying something different: it is better to be poor and blameless on the one hand, but to be poor will naturally mean all your friends desert you. It is however clear that there is a duty toward the poor, and James in uncompromising about it. And who are the poor and the rich? Well dear reader whatever your circumstances if you are reading this you have access to the internet. And in today's world those who do not can be disadvantaged indeed, so in at least one sense you are rich: use that wealth wisely!
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