Reflection from your Co-Pastors
November 3, 2020
Philippians 2: 5-11
Psalm 22: 26-32
Luke 14:15-24
Today is election day and my hope is that we have all cast our votes for the candidates of our choice. Now we will await the counting and tallying of the ballots. In the meantime, reading scripture can be a calming and peaceful alternative to relieve some of the stress of awaiting the outcome.
Saint Paul tells us in his letter to the Philippians to "let the same mind be in you that was in Christ." Psalm 22, a plea to God for deliverance from suffering and hostility, written by king David, advocates that "the poor shall eat and be satisfied" and that future generations will be told about the Lord and that his deliverance should be proclaimed to a people yet unborn. And finally Luke's gospel tells us the story of a ruler who invites many to his banquet.
Since they all make excuses, he sends his subjects out to the streets and roads and lanes of the town to bring all into the banquet so that his house may be filled. Unlike Matthew's telling of this story, no one is murdered, no city is burned, and no one wears the "wrong" garment. The ruler simply accepts the turned down invitations of his first guests and re-invites others who will come to the feast and fill his home with gratitude.
