22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,

    for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;

    therefore I will wait for him.”

25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,

    to the one who seeks him;

26 it is good to wait quietly

    for the salvation of the Lord.

~Lamentations 3: 22 - 25 NIV

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A few weeks ago, in my newsletter article, I wrote about the Revised Common Lectionary, and how the lessons are chosen. We are following the Semi-continuous Track, reading both Old Testament and Epistle lessons “in course.” In the Old Testament, we’ve been working our way through the story of Saul and David. We’ll hear the story of David and Bathsheba, and of Absolom’s revolt against his father. We’ll hear of Solomon building the Temple, and then we’ll several weeks’ lessons from Wisdom Literature (Proverbs, Job). Wisdom Literature is connected to the royal court, basically serving as advice for young men entering the service of the king. The Book of Proverbs provides training for young men on how to behave at court (the famous passage about the Good Wife, which we will read in September, is meant to help the young men marry well, so they can get ahead at court).

The typical message of wisdom literature is “if you do good, you will do well.” The Book of Job, though written in the style of other wisdom literature, challenges that basic message. Job does good, but all sort of bad things happen to him. His friends try to tell him he must have messed up, and that is why he is suffering. Job refuses their advice and insists on his innocence. I believe Job was written after the Exile as a response to the Book of Deuteronomy (which hammers home the point that if Israel messes up, God is going to punish them).

One of the things I love about the Old Testament is the variety of voices included, often contradictory voices. We will read a short snippet of the Book of Ruth, which I believe is written in response to the Book of Ezra. As the Jews returned from Exile in Babylon, Ezra insisted that they be able to trace their ancestry back to someone who was carried away into Exile, and that all the men who had remained behind and married foreign women now divorce them. Ruth tells the story of a Moabite woman who became the great-grandmother of King David.

The Bible holds up these various points of view, and feels no real need to resolve the conflicts, almost as if the final editors of the Old Testament were saying to the readers, “You decide.” Reading the Old Testament “in course” gives us the opportunity to hear this wide variety of voices, that the old way of reading hid from us.

Also, reading the Epistles in course, we get to hear of the great conflicts that rent the early Church: should Gentiles be included in the fellowship of the saints, or can only circumcised Jews become Christian? That conflict nearly split the Church in two, and it was only the destruction of the Temple and the displacement of the Jerusalem (Jewish) Church that finally resolved the issue. We will also hear early Christian authors struggling to understand the nature of salvation: is it present, or only in the future?

We tend to think of the Bible as monolithic – with a single message. Reading it on its own terms opens our eyes to the struggles of earlier generations to understand what God was saying to them. I find that quite comforting – when we aren’t quite sure what God may be saying to us, we can read in the pages of the Bible the same confusion on the part of God’s people in ages past. We can be encouraged by their struggles and disagreements that our own struggles and disagreements won’t finally stymie God’s plan of salvation. God is God, and the humans who have written the story of God’s interaction with God’s people are only too human. And yet the story rolls on despite our frailties and misapprehensions. And the Bible certainly makes for exciting reading.

I know it is a bit early for our next blood drive, but I wanted to say something about it to encourage you to sign up in the next few weeks to give at another location. The Red Cross is in dire need of blood right now!

If you are a regular donor you can give every 56 days, 112 for power red donations.

St. David's parish hall is too warm during the summer for drives so we refrain during June, July and August, but we encourage you to donate elsewhere to help those who really need you now.

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When the king was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent.” Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that you have in mind; for the Lord is with you.”

Remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision” —a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.

The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.