Jesus, I think I have never heard behind me
a loud voice, calling me like a trumpet
to go and prophesy to your people.
But when I read your words,
how I should love God
(all my heart, soul,
and mind), and my
neighbor as myself,
then my heart tells me that
you are speaking directly to me--
to hear these words has consequences.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 33; 146; 85;
94
Amos 7:10-17
Rev. 1:9-16
Matt. 22:34-46
Selected Verses
Ps. 85:8
Let me
hear what God the LORD will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people,
to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.
for he will speak peace to his people,
to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.
Amos 7:15
"…and the
LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy
to my people Israel.' …" [Amos to Amaziah]
Rev. 1:9-10
I, John, your
brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the
patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God
and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I
heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet…
Matt. 22:37-39
[Jesus] said to [the
lawyer who tested him], "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the
greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.' …"
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