We have heard your word
for us, O God;
your preachers have
stood in the gates to tell us.
To receive your word, we
must be humble,
lest through pride we
fail to do the good we want,
and the evil we do not
want is what we do--
lest we spend our lives
for the food that perishes,
not the food that
endures for eternal life.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 34; 136; 25; 91
Jer. 17:19-27
Rom. 7:13-25
John 6:16-27
Selected Verses
Ps. 25:9
[The LORD] leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
and teaches the humble his way.
Jer. 17:19-20
Thus said the LORD to me: Go and stand in the People’s Gate,
by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the
gates of Jerusalem, and say to them: Hear the word of the LORD, you kings
of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by
these gates.
Rom. 7:19
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want
is what I do.
John 6:27a
"…Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the
food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. …"
[Jesus to the crowd that had followed him across the sea]
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