Lectionary Reflection — 01 July 2018
The Bible used this week is the Common English Bible. I’ll return to the Message next week. Wisdom 1.13-15; 2.23-24 (CEB; adapted): 1 13 God didn’t make death. God takes no delight in the ruin of anything that lives. 14 God created everything so that it might exist. The creative forces at work in the cosmos are life-giving. There’s no destructive poison in them. The underworld doesn’t rule on earth. 15 Doing what’s right means living forever. … 23 Humans were created to live forever. They were made as a perfect representation of God’s own unique identity. 24 Death entered the universe only through the devil’s envy. Those who belong to the devil’s party experience death. Other readings: Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8.7, 9, 13-15; Mark 5.21-43 Today’s Lesson comes to us from one of the oft misunderstood and shrouded in mystery texts of the “Apocrypha” — the Wisdom of Solomon (o...