Seventh Sunday After Pentecost

Trust, writes the prophet Isaiah, that God’s Word has the power to accomplish His will!  “It will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”  In the Gospel we see that Word in flesh doing the work of the Father, planting the seeds of the Kingdom liberally in order to produce an abundant crop, not of grain, but sons and daughters who, by faith in Christ, call this mighty and merciful God “Abba, Father.”