January 3, 2021, Luke 4:14-22, ISSL Reflections, Post 2

This week’s Scripture can be read at –
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14-22&version=NRSV;MSG

IV.
Spend some time with the portions of Isaiah our Gospel text references –

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
(Luke 4:18-19)

V.
What do you make of the prophet’s statement, “… to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor”?

How about the way The Message translates it, “This is God’s year do act”?

VI.
Would you think of the year 2020 as a “year of the Lord’s favor”?

I have to suspect that is not the way most of us would describe the year … and certainly we have good reasons to feel that way.

You could take each statement of the prophet – “good news to the poor,” recovery of sight to the blind,” and “the oppressed go free” – and find ways in which that did not happen and even ways in which the opposite did happen.

But if we take some time we might find some times in which “the Lord’s favor” did show up.

Maybe ways we had a hand in bringing “the Lord’s favor.

What can you see?

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est}


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