The Friday after Cantate Sunday
Posted on May 23, 2025 by under
Scripture: Isaiah 52:9-12 (NKJV)
52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there, touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, be clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Devotion
Even with all the evil and suffering in the world, we are not the defeated. We are not the ones that hopelessly look forward to decline and death. Our God has triumphed on Easter morning! The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are such earth shaking events that no one has been able to ignore them ever since. The unbelievers may reject Him, but no one ignores Him. God has revealed His power “in the eyes of all the nations.” The atoning work of Christ was not done in a corner like Mohammed’s meeting an angel in a cave. Jesus’ teaching, miracles, life, and death were done before the whole world. “And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” It was an event in time and in history.
Even today, the whole world can see God’s salvation in the faithful Christian Church. The Word is preached publicly and the Sacraments are administered in public. Those who bear the vessels of the Lord still present the redeeming Savior to the world. All may come to salvation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Collect: O God, Who makest the minds of the faithful to be of one will: Grant unto Thy people that they may love what Thou commandest, and desire what Thou dost promise; that, among the manifold changes of this world, our hearts may there be fixed where true joys are to be found; 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.
