Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9 and Psalm 33:1-12 • Hosea 5:15-6:6 and Psalm 50:7-15 • Romans 4:13-25 • Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
In this Sunday's Old Testament readings, we see Abraham, at the age of seventy-five, leave his country and what he has known all his life, in faith, as God promised to make him a great nation. In the passage from Hosea, who married and showed the compassionate love of hesed to an unfaithful prostitute foretelling God's covenantal love of even an unfaithful people, culminating in Jesus’s compassionate love in eating with tax collectors and sinners, and healing the unclean in this Sunday's gospel.
This begs the question of what is God's justice and relationship to an unfaithful, unjust, people? Read Dan Clendenin's "Abraham's Journey," and consider William Bennett's homily.
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