Isaiah 40:21-31<\/p>\n
This poetic admonition was written to the Jews in Exile in Babylon .\u00a0 We talked about what it meant to “wait on (or upon) the Lord”.\u00a0\u00a0 DC spoke about the ancient concept that gods inhabit certain geographical spaces and that, being in Exile, the Jews needed to be reminded that their God was with them even in Exile.\u00a0 Like Jonah, they couldn’t escape him if they wanted.<\/p>\n
Waiting implied patience and time spent giving attention to God.\u00a0 The poem contrasts the vastness and order of the heavens and the “grasshopper” mortality of man.\u00a0\u00a0 Isaiah has God scold those in exile who feel abandoned.<\/p>\n
AD added tha the promise to renew the strength of those who wait upon the Lord speaks to us to wait upon, or serve,\u00a0 God by waiting, being patient, letting the Holy\u00a0 be in our lives on God’s terms and time table.<\/p>\n
Corinthians 9:16-23<\/p>\n
We asked ourselves “What is it about our experience with Jesus that like Paul,\u00a0 we simply must share with others.”\u00a0\u00a0 PC\u00a0 recalled Paul’s circumstances, preaching to Jesus followers in small groups, Jews in synagogues, people in homes and in a wide spread territory and that his letters were written not to explain Jesus comprehensively but to answer certain questions and deal with a variety of events.\u00a0\u00a0 DC\u00a0 remarked how “Being all things to all people” now has a negative connotation, as if there were no substance to an argument if it can be altered by circumstance.\u00a0 But Paul’s message was a deep enough constant that telling it in different ways was not a weakness.\u00a0 PG\u00a0 referred to the commentary that suggested that we were called to “walk beside” people in faith rather than try to tell them answers.\u00a0 Perhaps just being in the spiritual company of others communicates what is Holy.<\/p>\n
Mark 1:29-39<\/p>\n
AD referred to a commentary she’d read that suggested that Peter’s mother in law may not have been “serving” a meal after her healing, but serving Jesus as an emissary.\u00a0\u00a0 If she had been sick, she would have been “unclean”, said another commentary.\u00a0 That Jesus and the others kept her company exemplifies how they set aside the letter of the law for higher purposes of the law.\u00a0 PC remarked about healing being the driving out of “unclean spirits” and what that might mean in contemporary times.\u00a0 We wondered why Jesus chose to stop healing to go pray and then to move on to preach to new neighborhoods when there was healing left.\u00a0 Perhaps, we concluded, his message of God’s proximity and accessibility, was more important to him than the individuals who benefited from his message.\u00a0 We also remarked that even the most perfect and holy of human beings needs to pray, to renew his spirit and his direction with Holy guidance. SC tied it all together with the Isaiah passage: “those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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