Daily Reading - Sept 14

Daily Reading

Numbers 21:4b-9

Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38

Philippians 2:6-11

John 3:13-17

Every one of these readings turns on something lifted up where the afflicted can see it. In the wilderness the remedy wasn't hidden or earned — it was raised on a pole, and the bitten man had only to look. The psalm is honest about what we do with that kind of rescue: we seek him when we're dying, flatter him with our mouths, and go back on the covenant, and he forgives anyway. Then Paul shows us the descent behind it — the one who didn't clutch at equality with God, but emptied himself down to a criminal's death — and John tells us why the cross stands where everyone can see it. It was lifted up not to condemn the world but to save it. The looking is still all that's asked.

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