I. Readings
Psalms 31, 43, 143
Deuteronomy 11:18-28
Hebrews 5:1-10
John 4:1-26
II. Selections
Psalm 43:2
For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?
Deuteronomy 11:26-27
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today ...
Hebrews 5:8
Although [ Jesus] was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him ...
John 4:10
Jesus answered [ the Samaritan woman], "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
III. Meditation: A daily choice
Today you set a choice before us: a blessing or a curse.
If we choose the curse, we walk about mournfully,
feel cast off from you, as if an enemy oppresses.
Or we can choose to ask you for your living water,
that we each day from suffering may learn obedience,
as he who became our source of salvation was obedient.
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