Where we are heading (readings for Sunday 15th September):
Exodus 32.7-14
Psalm 51.1-10
1 Timothy 1.12-17
Luke 15.1-10
Readings for 16th September
Psalm 73
Amos 1.18-20
1 Timothy 1.18-20
Readings for today
Psalm 73
Jonah 3.1-10
2 Peter 3.8-13
thought for today
As we continue to think about Luke 15 (my friend's 'desert island chapter') we are present with some stories of God dealing with other lost people - the community of Israel that Amos defends and the people of Ninevah that Jonah resented so much. God relents from a punishment which might be considered appropriate. But that does not mean that they and we can do whatever we like: The day of the Lord, like a plumbline, is coming - indeed is already at hand. As we enter God's presence we can capture, if only for a moment, God's perspective on things - as the writer of Psalm 73 does.
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