Our reading challenge for the day is Luke 16-20. I'll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?
From chapter 16 through most of chapter 19, Luke simply turns up the heat on what we observed yesterday. Not only are we to trust in God to deliver his people, but we are to realize that we deserve nothing of the kind. All the situations in which God redeems his people in these parables are patently situations in which the people did nothing worthy of redemption. It is out of God's pure mercy and pleasure that he rescues us from sin.
Near the end of chapter 19 we have Jesus entering into Jerusalem. Though he shows himself to be the king and master of all, yet he is challenged and rejected by his opponents. What will happen to them? The parables he tells make it quite clear that in the last day God will condemn those who have rejected him. Yet in the mean time he is shown to be the Lord who weeps over the people who reject him. May we have grace to treat our enemies in the same way today, allowing God to be the final judge.
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