May Your Song Be with Us, God of Our Lives--June 14, 2016

By day, you command your steadfast love,

and at night your song is with us, O God.

Let it be with us when we fail to enjoy

your good gifts because we are too

enamored with what we had before,

or when we exchange the truth about

you for a lie and worship and serve the

creature rather than you, the Creator.

And let your song be with us when

we think about your betrayal

and your death and your

rising again.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133

Num. 11:1-23

Rom. 1:16-25

Matt. 17:22-27

       

Selected Verses

Ps. 42:8

By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
          and at night his song is with me,
          a prayer to the God of my life.

Num. 11:5

"…We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic…"  [Israelites weeping for want of meat to eat.]

Rom. 1:25

…because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!  Amen.

Matt. 17:22-23

As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to [his disciples], "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised."  And they were greatly distressed.