Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
There’s always a thread among the Daily Readings, honest. It’s just that some days, it’s harder to find that thread than others. Further, as you likely know from having heard some long, convoluted homilies or sermons in your life, it’s sometimes folly to try to link up all the readings into one message. Conventional wisdom is to focus on the relevance of a single reading to the audience’s
lives.
This is one of those other days, those joyous days when the harmony of the readings is so apparent one can’t help but talk about them all.
The God of Isaiah 40 is not an angry, vindictive God. He is a loving, tender God who loves His people and who asks us to do the same, to let the people know they are saved and to comfort them.
The God Jesus speaks of in Matthew 18 is much the same, a God who loves his flock and who goes in search of those who go astray (that would be all of us) and rejoices at our return, whether we were away from His grace for three seconds, three days, three months, three years, or three decades.
That is our God. We are His people. How blessed are we indeed? Why should anything keep us from singing His praise and sharing his Good News non-stop, as David advises in Psalm 96?
Now, stop reading and meditating, and go into the world and do it.
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