Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler,
the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Sometimes the church/liturgical calendar plays around with our national/secular calendar in interesting ways. Of course it's Thanksgiving week and we're all thinking about turkey and dressing and football and giving thanks. For some of us (especially those of us with young children who remind us) we're thinking about pilgrims and voyages across the ocean and being afraid of not surviving. And we remember that those pilgrims came because of a fear of a king, a ruler, a judge. They came because of a conflict with the ruler and the ruling class where they lived. They needed to go somewhere else to worship as they wanted.
In this way, Christ the King (which is the liturgical holiday just past and that we're still thinking about with this lesson) reminds us that we have a righteous and a just king. No matter where we live, no matter if we like the government or the politics or the system... we have a ruler who will save us. The Lord is our king. Thanks be to God!
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Join us for Thanksgiving worship Wednesday evening at 7. Bring a bag of groceries for the Palatine Food Pantry. Then join us on Thursday for our free community meal, 11-2. We begin Advent in worship next Sunday at 8:30 and 11.
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