Preaching on Jer.9,23f today, it was clarified again what a privilege we Christians have, that we know God and understand his ways in Jesus Christ. Confessing the Apostolic Creed with our children is a case in point. We know the basic truth about, what God has done for us in creation, salvation and sanctification and we understand that he did that for us and ultimately for our salvation – because he wants all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of truth. Obviously this insider knowledge adds the burden, that we should share this saving faith and precious hope lovingly with those outside the fold. Our Lord wants them too to come into his Church and find rest in his gracious, forgiving and healing presence. There is no other way to salvation than through Jesus Christ, our Lord +
The gospel of today from Mt.20,1ff goes a long way to prove that we, who know this from childhood and have run the race (1.Cor.9,24ff) faithfully since then, don’t have any more reason to boast than those, who only came to know him in the last hour. We all have only one reason to boast and that is, that we know God and understand him, “who practices steadfast love, justice and righteousness on earth” (Jer.9,24). In these things the Lord delights!
Read here, what Karen Armstrong points out in her apologetic attempt to have people think again about God – and then thank God, that you have already learnt this from childhood and that thankfully in the Church even a child knows who God is and understands his goodness, grace and mercy, which is new every morning.
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