Jesus, you call us to deny ourselves,
take up our cross, and follow you.
But we are easily deceived,
distracted by competing calls
that surround us like a swarm
of bees, like a fire of thorns,
we leave you and return
to our own fields.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 56; 149;
118; 111
Neh. 13:4-22
Rev. 20:1-6
Matt. 16:21-28
Selected Verses
Ps. 118:12
[All nations]
surrounded me like bees;
they blazed like a fire of thorns;
in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
they blazed like a fire of thorns;
in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Neh. 13:10
I also found out
that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; so that the
Levites and the singers, who had conducted the service, had gone back to their
fields.
Rev. 20:2-3a
[The angel]
seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound
him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and locked and
sealed it over him, so that he would deceive the nations no more, until the
thousand years were ended.
Matt. 16:24
Then Jesus told
his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny
themselves and take up their cross and follow me. …"
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