Proper 5 Year A
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A
Description
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A
Ordinary Time
Proper 5
Genesis 12.1–9
Romans 4.13–25
Matthew 9.9–13, 18–26
Abraham’s call (Abram, actually, at this stage; but just as we say the Archbishop was born in 1935, even though he wasn’t Archbishop then, so we don’t need to fuss about giving the patriarch the right name all the time). Abraham’s call to go out into the unknown is a fitting start for the long stretch of Sundays after Trinity. Equipped with the new vision of God in Jesus and the Spirit, we are to follow in obedience, knowing only who it is that leads us, and the purpose of the journey.
Abraham was promised the land; Abraham’s family was promised the earth. Or rather, the whole world was promised God’s blessing in and through Abraham’s family. That, after the curse of Genesis 3 and 11, was the point of Abraham’s call in the first place. God now makes a new start, absurd and scandalous as it seemed and still often seems, to create a new creation from within the old, a new human family
from within the old, to give new life in the midst of death...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright
Published by SPCK