August 30, 2008

I. Readings
Psalms 63, 100, 122
Job 9:1; 10:1-9, 16-22
Acts 11:1-18
John 8:12-20

II. Selections
Psalm 100:3
Know that the LORD is God
It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Job 10:1
" ...I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ... "
[ Job to his friends]

Acts 11:17
" ...If then God gave [ the Gentiles] the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?" [ Peter to the other apostles and circumcised believers in Judea]

John 8:19
Then [ the Pharisees] said to [ Jesus], "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

III. Meditation: Who and whose

We know that you are God,
that you have made us
and we are yours.
We are your people,
the sheep of your pasture.

We know you through Jesus,
for when we know him
we know you also.
Through him we receive;
through him help us to share.

And if we sink to bitterness
of soul, complaining say
we loathe our life,
remind us who we are,
whose we are, who you are.