You are the one who searches minds and
hearts.
You search me, and ask me if it is the
time
for me to live in a comfortable house,
when millions live in misery and squalor.
Their hearts are stricken, withered like
grass;
they are too wasted to eat bread, if they
had bread.
Gather them under your wings, Lord Jesus,
and show us
how to care for them, lest our house be
left as desolate
as our works deserve.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 102; 148;
130; 16
Hagg. 1:1-15
Rev. 2:18-29
Matt. 23:27-39
Selected Verses
Ps. 102:4
My heart is
stricken and withered like grass;
I am too wasted to eat my bread.
I am too wasted to eat my bread.
Hagg. 1:3-4
Then the word of
the LORD came by the prophet Haggai, saying: Is it a time for you
yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
Rev. 2:23b
And all the
churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will
give to each of you as your works deserve.
Matt. 23:37-38
"Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to
it! How often have I desired to gather
your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were
not willing! See, your house is left to you, desolate. …"
[Jesus to the scribes and Pharisees]
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