Sermon, 15th Sunday after Trinity, 2025
The frailty of man without God cannot but fall. This haunting clause from the collect for the 15th Sunday after Trinity permeates our lessons today. In Galatians 6, we see men striving through circumcision for their own righteousness apart from God. This endeavor is bound to fall. In Matthew 6, we see men also striving to meet their physical needs apart from God. We focus upon getting things for ourselves to protect from calamity and refuse to rest in the provision that God will supply. Our efforts apart from God are bound to fall.
What do we do? Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. God knows your physical needs and will provide as is best for you. God also knows your spiritual needs, and He meets them, not through human attempts at righteousness, but through making us into new creatures. Let us therefore stop striving in our own frailty and instead seek His Kingdom and the new life we have in Christ.