Over All God Has Made--Feb. 18, 2019

[From Feb. 14, 2011 archive]

O God, you are good to all, and your

compassion is over all you have made.

I choose not to believe that you have trampled

down peoples in anger, crushed them in wrath,

and poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

You teach love that comes from a pure heart,

a good conscience, and sincere faith.

Such a love sent two disciples for a colt Jesus

would ride to enter the city of his execution—

his own lifeblood to be poured out over the earth.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 135; 145; 97; 112

Isa. 63:1-6

1 Tim. 1:1-17

Mark 11:1-11

Selected Verses

Ps. 145:9

The Lord is good to all,

            and his compassion is over all he has made.

Isa. 63:6

“…I trampled down peoples in my anger,
            I crushed them in my wrath,
            and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

1 Tim. 1:5

But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.

Mark 11:1-3

When [Jesus and his disciples] were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it.  If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’ ”