Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2017

Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”  What are those things of which Jesus speaks?  What did the prophets and kings, all of the faithful of the Old Testament long to see?  They longed for the Messiah!  And now Jesus tells them, You’re looking at Him!  You are face-to-face with the One whom seers in old time chanted of with one accord, whom the voices of the Prophets promised in their faithful Word!  And how does Jesus explain that to them?  He reveals this to those who have ears to hear by way of a Parable to a lawyer who wanted to justify himself.  To that lawyer and to all of us was explained that the only hope for salvation is not your own action, but the action of a merciful God in His promised Messiah.

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