Today is the commemoration of Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heerman, and Paul Gerhardt, Hymnwriters.
Today's readings are Psalm 12, Deuteronomy 28:1-22, and Matthew 18:1-20.
Today in our reading from Deuteronomy we see the blessings to counter the curses we read yesterday. Often when Christians think of blessings we are ashamed of ourselves. We try to restrict our thoughts of blessing to spiritual well-being and to good feelings. yet the blessings God promises in Deuteronomy 28 are very concrete. God promises his blessings of food, drink, offspring, successful farms, all manner of blessings we might reject as "merely temporal." Yet this is the way God often shows his blessing. may we never reject the way our Lord desires to bless us.
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