To Go and Show Mercy--Oct. 20, 2016

[From Oct. 25, 2012 archive]

We love you because you have heard our supplications;

surely you have shown us mercy, O God.

Shall we not be merciful?

You have stood as shepherd of your flock and fed us

and cared for us.  Shall we not feed

and care for others?

When we fail to hear the supplications of the needy,

we distance ourselves from your love;

we enter a bottomless pit.

God, in your strength, lift us out of the pit;

Christ, in your mercy may we go

and show mercy.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116

Micah 5:1-4, 10-15

Rev. 9:1-12

Luke 10:25-37

Selected Verses

Ps. 116:1

 I love the LORD, because he has heard
          my voice and my supplications.

Micah 5:4

And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD,
     in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.

Rev. 9:2

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit…

Luke 10:37

[The lawyer] said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."