This week our readings will focus us on the wisdom of humility - that Godly virtue that is often praised by our world in words, but then despised in deeds.Psalm 138 proclaims that "though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the humble, but the proud he knows from afar."
Asking why God would say that he "knows the proud from afar," Father William Weedon makes the excellent point that God "knows them from afar because He hangs out with the humble! He's not with the great and proud; He's in the cow's feeding trough and hanging on the wood of the tree and looking at us through the eyes of everyone in need. Our God ISN'T proud, and so the only way He can know the proud is from a distance." (Check his blog out at http://weedon.blogspot.com/ - it's one of the best!)
True, Godly humility brings freedom and grace as it strips away our attempts at personal greatness and allows us to rest in the forgiving love of Christ.
Here are the readings:
Proverbs 25:6,7
Hebrews 13:1-8,15,16
Luke 14:1,7-14
Divine Service will begin at 11.00am.
God's peace,
Pastor Matt
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