You are God, and we are
not.
You have made us, and we
are yours--
your people, the sheep
of your pasture.
All this should be a
great comfort to us,
but instead it can be a
great challenge.
Who wants to be
fashioned like clay,
destined for dust? Lord, remind us:
we do not know what you
know.
Teach us to accept who
you are
and who we are, lest we
hinder you in
loving us.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63
Job 9:1, 10:1-9, 16-22
Acts 11:1-18
John 8:12-20
Selected Verses
Ps. 100:3
Know that the LORD is God.
It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Job 10:9
"Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you
turn me to dust again? …" [Job, lamenting to God]
Acts 11:17
"…If then God gave [the Gentiles] the same gift that he
gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could
hinder God?" [Peter to the apostles
and believers in Judea]
John 8:14
Jesus answered [the Pharisees], "Even if I testify on
my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and
where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. …"
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