The Wednesday after the First Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 10, 2026 by under
Scripture: Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NKJV)
9:23 Thus says the Lord:
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
24 “But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.
Devotion
The delight of the Lord must be our delight: the exercise of lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness. These things He has given us in Christ, recreating us by them so that giving them is now our nature. While our flesh still wars against them, wanting whatever it desires, the new creation that we are in Christ Jesus desires to be like our Father in Heaven, loving as He has loved us.
The Law thus becomes a checkpoint for us, a ‘rule’ or ‘guide’ in the intended sense of those words: not so much a ‘telling us what to do’, as the new man already knows, but a measuring rod by which we see where our flesh is not conforming to the image of God. He has blessed us with various things, physical and spiritual, and here Jeremiah relates the words from the Lord that allow us to evaluate correctly how we are receiving these blessings, where our glorying and rejoicing is focused.
As those who have been begun by the Spirit, and will be completed by Him, the Gospel turns our glorying toward what endures: knowing Him whose wisdom is above all and whose riches are never diminished, but may freely be shared with all, knowing that He will continue to rule wisely and to provide for us forever.
Collect: O God, the Strength of all them that put their trust in Thee: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without Thee, grant us the help of Thy grace, that in keeping Thy commandments we may please Thee, both in will and deed; 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.
