God of surprises, you
take pleasure in your people,
but it is the humble
whom you adorn with victory.
Everything is
reversed--the youngest receives
the largest portions;
the slave you make free;
the wholesome citizens
want you to leave,
while the demoniac wants
to be with you.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143
Gen. 43:16-34
1 Cor. 7:10-24
Mark 5:1-20
Selected Verses
Ps. 149:4
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory.
he adorns the humble with victory.
Gen. 43:33-34a
When they were seated before him, the firstborn according to
his birthright and the youngest according to his youth, the men looked at one
another in amazement. Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table,
but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs.
1 Cor. 7:22
For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed
person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave
of Christ.
Mark 5:17-18
Then [the people from the city] began to beg Jesus to leave
their neighborhood. As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been
possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.
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