Post by abreiholz on Mar 25, 2020 10:06:20 GMT -6
The readings in Luke are easier to mine for guidance for doing good than some of the Pentateuch. Luke 12:32-34 is particularly apropos for a time when so many are obsessing about when the paper products shelves won’t be empty:
32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - Luke 12:32-34
The Lutheran Study Bible used a profound quotation from St. Augustine to expand on verse 40
You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." - Luke 12:40
“Our Lord Jesus Christ both came to men, and went away from men, and is to come to men. And yet He was here when He came, nor did He depart when He went away, and He is to come to them to whom He said, ‘Lo, I am with you, even unto the end of the world’ ” (NPNF1 6:440).
It is a great mystery of the faith that our Lord who ascended to the Father and will one day suddenly return is also with us at all times and in all places and in all situations.
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32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - Luke 12:32-34
The Lutheran Study Bible used a profound quotation from St. Augustine to expand on verse 40
You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." - Luke 12:40
“Our Lord Jesus Christ both came to men, and went away from men, and is to come to men. And yet He was here when He came, nor did He depart when He went away, and He is to come to them to whom He said, ‘Lo, I am with you, even unto the end of the world’ ” (NPNF1 6:440).
It is a great mystery of the faith that our Lord who ascended to the Father and will one day suddenly return is also with us at all times and in all places and in all situations.
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