Today...

In reading for the sermon this week I came across these words...a compilation of authors, but I think captures this verse beautifully. Read and reflect.


"Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." Luke 4:21

Will he tell them that the Isaiah text is:
a) pleasant nostalgia about the past work of God to bring the exiles home

or

b) pie in the sky, a far-out promise to be fulfilled by God in heaven?

No. Jesus rejects both of these readings and offers an alternative: Today. Today, with all its ambiguity, all its expectations, disappointments and compromises. Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. Again, the finite is capable of bearing the infinite.

Often when we pray we are trying to get God to give us our ideal pain-free world. God, on the other hand wants us to accept the reality of his presence in this pain-ridden world. Today is always today.