Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Jesus said, ‘But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written about him.’”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, February 21, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
Sometimes I miss the obvious. I’m so wrapped up in my own thoughts, barreling through my stress, wondering when I’m ever going to be able to catch my breath, that I forget God’s presence in my life. I forget that I’m not the one running the universe, that nothing I’m doing is so important that it can’t wait while I spend a little time with God, filling my well, so to speak.
Jesus suggests in this passage that John the Baptist was actually Elijah, returning to prepare the way of the messiah and savior. John’s words and actions should have made this obvious to everyone. Yet he was treated as a rabble-rouser, and was executed by his own people. In the same way, God’s prophets had been mistreated and sometimes killed throughout Israel’s history.
God’s children—all of us, then and now—sometimes get too wrapped up in details to see the big picture. It takes effort to seek to know and do God’s will for our lives.
Where might I be missing obvious signs of God’s presence?
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