What I find interesting about this very short passage in the gospel of Mark is the progression of scenes that come before it. Jesus and his disciples had been traveling around Galilee and the disciples were afraid to understand Jesus’s prediction about his own suffering and death. Then they confused earthly notions about hierarchy with Jesus’s “the first shall be last” motto. And then this blow: even strangers outside their exclusive circle have a ministry.
Gentle loving God: help me to live freely in your world of expansiveness and move out of my restrictive vision of you.
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Sirach 4:11-19
Psalm 119:154,171-175
Mark 9:38-40
John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us.
The reading is from the website below.
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