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TUESDAY, September 14 Holy Cross Day
Philippians 2:5-11. At the name of Jesus every knee should bend…and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
T. Ralph Morton, in his book Jesus: Man for Today, examines the title “Lord” as applied by the first disciples in the first Christian creed. Morton says it does not convey to us today what it did to those who first used it of Jesus. For them it was no mere title of respect; they meant Christ was master of their lives. The term conveyed ownership of the whole earth; they meant Christ was the creator and giver of all things. Says Morton: “They were making a quite stupendous claim for him. They were saying Jesus was in the same relation to the material world as God is. And when the Jews talked in this way they did not mean only that God had acted in the beginning to get the whole thing going. They meant far more that: there was a continuous purpose at work in the world, and this was supremely manifest in human history.”
We need to recapture this hopeful attitude to the world and to life in the face of today’s confusion. Christians do not seek an escape from reality that denies life’s enormous challenges, but to assert the triumphant Lordship of God in Christ. (1975)
PRAY for the Diocese of Harare (Central Africa)
Ps 98 or 98:1-4; Isaiah 45:21-25; Philippians 2:5-11 or Galatians 6:14-18; John 12:31-36a
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I don't think so; but, not everybody comes to the same conclusions that I do. Those who disagree with me and take their belief to the extreme have been responsible for torture, terror, violence and death since a few hundred years after Jesus the Christ ascended into heaven.