Your Face, Lord, Do I Seek--Sept. 21, 2017

Come, says my heart, seek God's face.

Yet there is jealousy and quarreling in me--

I am behaving according to human inclinations.

Help me turn aside from such behavior, dear Lord;

make me hunger and thirst for your righteousness,

that I may do what is right in your sight,

for your face do I seek.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27

1 Kings 22:29-45

1 Cor. 2:14-3:15

Matt. 5:1-10

Selected Verses

Ps. 27:8

 "Come," my heart says, "seek his face!" 
          Your face, LORD, do I seek. 

1 Kings 22:43

[Jehoshaphat] walked in all the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD; yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and offered incense on the high places. 

1 Cor. 3:3

…for you are still of the flesh.  For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?

Matt. 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.  …"  [Jesus to the crowds on the mountain]