Psalm 52; Leviticus 24:1-23; Luke 12:54-13:17

Notice the confidence the psalmist has in the name of YHWH: "I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly" (9). We usually don't like to wait for people, and people for whom we wait usually don't elicit our praise. Yet, to wait for YHWH is to trust in his promises. He will deliver on what he has said. The bread sacrifice that YHWH commands in the Leviticus reading leads us to think of the Lord's Supper, where we eat the forever sacrifice–Jesus himself. The reading from Luke leads us to think of Jesus inaugurating the new creation. We are to be ready for that day for we are in the end times already. The call is clear: repent. Ultimately, Jesus healing on the Sabbath shows us that he is the Sabbath. He embodies the new creation and will establish it forever when he comes to make a new heaven and earth.