I. Readings
Psalms 27, 36, 80
Genesis 11:1-9
Hebrews 6:13-20
John 4:1-15
II. Selections
Psalm 36:7
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Genesis 11:7
" ...Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
Hebrews 6:13
When God made a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself ...
John 4:1-3
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John"-although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized-he left Judea and started back to Galilee.
III. Meditation: Rivals
Did you at Babel confuse our language
to confound us, and make us rival one another,
all from fear that we would rival you?
No, you are a God of steadfast love,
who invites all people to take refuge
in the shadow of your wings.
You have no need to fear our puny rivalry;
no one is greater than you,
no one begins to compare with you.
It is we who fear rivals, we who spread rumors
about who is making more disciples,
doing more baptisms, showing more love.
We make our own Babel,
causing you to leave Judea
and return to Galilee.
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