Jeremiah 23 and 33 are an interesting study in contrasts. For in the former, it is the Branch who is named "The LORD our Righteousness" but in the latter it is the people - Judah, Jerusalem - which bear this name. And in today's NT reading, Pilate is warned by his wife: "Have nothing to do with that righteous man." A curious name for Him. But that is what He is: the Righteous Man, the One who alone is just of all peoples of the earth, who renders to His Father that which is His Father's due by an unfailing fear, love, and trust. And so He IS the Righteousness of His people, as St. Paul would say: "whom God made unto us righteousness." He and He alone is our boast, our holiness, our very life.
17 November 2009
Lectio Divina
Jeremiah 23 and 33 are an interesting study in contrasts. For in the former, it is the Branch who is named "The LORD our Righteousness" but in the latter it is the people - Judah, Jerusalem - which bear this name. And in today's NT reading, Pilate is warned by his wife: "Have nothing to do with that righteous man." A curious name for Him. But that is what He is: the Righteous Man, the One who alone is just of all peoples of the earth, who renders to His Father that which is His Father's due by an unfailing fear, love, and trust. And so He IS the Righteousness of His people, as St. Paul would say: "whom God made unto us righteousness." He and He alone is our boast, our holiness, our very life.
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