Friday after the Third Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 21, 2024 by under
Scripture: St. Luke 16:16-17 (NKJV)
16:16 “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.”
Devotion
Jesus was never one to use words carelessly. When He said, “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail,” He was making it abundantly clear that even the smallest point of the Law, God’s Law, would not fail. Furthermore, Jesus is God in the flesh, who fulfilled all that the Law requires. We also know that “heaven and earth” will one day “pass away” because creation was subjected to sin. We too will “pass away,” because we are sinners who have broken God’s Law.
But out of His grace and mercy, God has brought the Gospel to the world through “the law and the prophets,” through John, through the preaching of Jesus, and today through the preaching of faithful pastors whom Christ has sent. Even though the world around us continues “pressing” us to give up our faith in Jesus, for Jesus’ sake God does not give up on us.
We are renewed every day by the working of the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repent of our sins and directs us to see our forgiveness in Christ crucified. Though “heaven and earth pass away” and we too must “pass away,” we have the assurance of eternal life for Jesus’ sake.
Collect: O God, the Protector of all that trust in Thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us Thy mercy; that Thou being our Ruler and Guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
