“Lord, Help Me”--June 6, 2022

[From June 12, 2006 archive]

 

Your ways are a mystery to us;

we cannot predict them

or what will happen next.

Joy follows sorrow,

sorrow follows joy.

 

Very often, good things grow out of bad;

but though we may not see the good,

still we put our trust in you,

for you do not forsake

those who seek you.

 

Even if at first you seem to turn away,

teach us to come to you and bend the knee,

saying, “Lord, help me.”

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 62; 145; 73; 9

Eccl. 7:1-14

Gal. 4:12-20

Matt. 15:21-28

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 9:10

And those who know your name put their trust in you,

            for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

 

Eccl. 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.

 

Gal. 4:13

You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you…

 

Matt. 15:24-25

[Jesus] answered [the Canaanite woman], “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”  But she came and knelt before him, saying, “ Lord, help me.”