You Whose Hands Have Made and Fashioned Us--March 6, 2017

[From Feb. 14, 2005 archive]

O you whose hands have made and fashioned us,

give us understanding that we may learn

your commandments.  Then with understanding

make us ready to do whatever you tell us,

diligently observing your commandments.

 Though we fail, comfort us in the sure knowledge

that the one who--in spite of our failures--

has sanctified us is not ashamed

to call us brothers and sisters.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6

Deut. 8:1-20

Heb. 2:11-18

John 2:1-12

Selected Verses

Ps. 119:73

Your hands have made and fashioned me;

            give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Deut. 8:1

This entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors.

Heb. 2:11

For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father.  For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters…

John 2:5

[Jesus'] mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”