Sunday/Lawlessness
The epistle today is from Paul and has a line not often quoted but obliquely significant.
He writes very specifically about Christ, how He spoke and how He was received--quite confident at the time about things that people later will say were ambiguous. Today he declares 'the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness
and to cleanse for himself a people as his own,
eager to do what is good.'
What caught my eye was 'lawlessness.' The people are being rescued from 'lawlessness.' It's reminiscent of Dostoyevsky's horrible thought that, without God, man is limited only by cowardice.
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