Transform the Body of Our Humiliation--Nov. 13, 2016

[From Nov. 16, 2014 archive]

Lord Jesus Christ, forgive us

that we tithe mint, dill, and cummin

while we neglect justice, mercy, and faith,

though destruction and violence are before us,

and though everywhere strife and contention arise.

Transform, we pray, the body of our humiliation,

so that it may be conformed to the body of your glory,

and that your saving power may be known over all the earth.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 67; 150; 46; 93

Hab. 1:1-2:1

Phil. 3:13-4:1

Matt. 23:13-24

Selected Verses

Ps. 67:2

…that your way may be known upon earth,
            your saving power among all nations. 

Hab. 1:3b

Destruction and violence are before me;
     strife and contention arise. 

Phil. 3:21

[The Lord Jesus Christ] will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.

Matt. 23:23

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith.  It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.  …"  [Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples]