Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.”
NL Daily Devotion for Wednesday, May 29, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Sons were considered the greatest gifts of God. In the story of Jacob in Genesis, his wives, Leah and Rachel, were in great competition to give their husband sons, even pulling their slaves into the mix, and eventually providing the patriarch with 12 sons altogether. Jacob gloried in his sons, but especially Joseph, the first born of his favorite wife, Rachel. He spoiled Joseph (with less than stellar results). Mothers could glory in their sons, too, as Rebekah did with Jacob (much to Esau’s dismay). One can imagine, then, the intense glorying of a parent who had only one son—in this case, God the “father” glorying in his son, Jesus.
But the truth is that God glories in each of us as if we were God’s only child, taking enormous joy in who we are as individuals. Know, today, that you are loved by your heavenly parent in ways far beyond your imagining.
Whether or not I am a parent, can I relate in some way to God’s glorying in the fact of my being?
