The way we see God, others and ourselves is through the
lenses of our culture, how we have been taught to see. Someone once asked God
why God had sent a son, not a daughter to show God to us. God’s reply seemed to
be that God’s daughter has come a million times only no one has ever recognised
her because she was a woman.
In the Gospel reading set for today, we have a number of
small illustrations of the kingdom of heaven. The final one in Mat 13:52 says,
“Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like
the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what
is old.” Have we in the church been guilty of just going along with the old and
been too reluctant to use the new? Could this be why some many of the younger
generations no longer have time for the church? We are too attached to the old?
The Good News is that this passage suggests there is new
available for our use, new ways of seeing and valuing every person, daughters
and women as well as sons and men. People without children as well as those
with them are blessed by God in different ways. We have the assurance in Romans
that all things work together for good and that nothing can separate us for the
love of God which is ours in Christ Jesus. We can encourage our scribes to
bring out the new for us to embrace as part of the kingdom of heaven for us
all.
Rev Julianne Parker
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