It is human nature to ask questions
about words, names, and rules;
even natural to wonder who we are.
David asked you who he was,
and why you had been good to him--
perhaps he asked out of vanity.
But when Jesus asked his disciples
who he was, it was not vanity.
Jesus asks, I think, to challenge us
to make a decision: to decide
whether he is the fountain of life,
that in his light, we see light.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 12; 146; 36;
7
2 Sam. 7:18-29
Acts 18:12-28
Mark 8:22-33
Selected Verses
Ps. 36:9
For with
you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
in your light we see light.
2 Sam. 7:18
Then King David
went in and sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what
is my house, that you have brought me thus far? …"
Acts 18:14-15
Just as Paul was
about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of crime or
serious villainy, I would be justified in accepting the complaint of you
Jews; but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your
own law, see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these
matters."
Mark 8:29a
[Jesus] asked [his disciples], "But who do you say that I
am?"
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