Morning: Psalms 121, 122, 123; Micah 1:1-9; Acts 23:12-24
Evening: Psalms 124, 125, 126, 127; Luke 7:1-17
Two stories demonstrate Jesus’s power over death. This is his purpose ... to bring life. Nobody asks Jesus to act here. He hears about the mortal illness of the centurion’s slave and cures him. He sees the widow whose son has died and raises him. Jesus’s compassion, which is the compassion of God, is life-giving. God’s compassion depends on nothing you do or do not do. It is freely offered. St. Paul says: “If anyone is in Christ, there is a New Creation.” All the centurion and the widow (and you) have to do is receive Jesus’s gift of compassion.
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