Evening: Psalm 85, 86; Mark 10:17-31
Nations
and people sometimes need reassurance, words of comfort predicting that
their suffering will end. Wisdom responds to different needs
differently. When you’re in trouble, you need compassion; when you’re
complacent, a challenge. Martin Marty said: “God comforts the afflicted
and afflicts the comfortable.” Jesus told the rich young ruler he
needed to give away all he had; he had to decide whether to stay in his
comfortable rut or break out into freedom. And we, if we feel like
arguing about this, or other things, we may simply need to be silent.
Graham
Graham Bland
Rector
St. George’s Anglican Church
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