[ Today's Readings ]
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavens
Do we live like we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing? Or do we rather live as if we would become saints if only God would give us a little more grace? We have been adopted by the Father and redeemed in Christ. These are the riches of his grace which are already lavished on us. He has told us the ultimate plan: "to sum up all things in Christ". And he has given us the grace to play our part.
We have the key of knowledge. We need to make sure that we use it and help others to enter as well. It is all to possible to distract ourselves with the memorials of the prophets. In other words, we do things that acknowledge God only when it doesn't call us to change. The prophets of the past would have told us to repent. We might have killed them together with our fathers. But since they are now in the past we can happily build our memorials to them. In order to not succumb to such distractions we need to listen to what God is saying to us now.
The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel.
He tells us all of the many blessings we have received and how to use them for his kingdom. He gives us the keys. We have to participate. To do otherwise might not be to rebel openly and obviously. But even something as innocent as building memorials to past prophets can be wrong if it keeps us from doing what we need to do here and now.
Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
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