Yet Some Things I Know--August 25, 2010

I. Readings
Psalms 65, 147:1-11, 125, 91
Job 6:1; 7:1-21
Acts 10:1-16
John 7:1-13

II. Selections
Psalm 65:1-2a
Praise is due to you,
      O God, in Zion;
and to you shall vows be performed,
      O you who answer prayer!

Job 7:11
“…Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. … ” [Job, in reply to his critics]

Acts 10:15
The voice said to [Peter] again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”

John 7:12
And there was considerable complaining about [Jesus] among the crowds. While some were saying, “He is a good man,” others were saying, “No, he is deceiving the crowd.”

III. Meditation

People could not agree whether Jesus was a good man or a deceiver.
Can we then ever expect agreement on matters of faith?

We know that what you have made clean, we must not call profane;
but how are we to tell what those things are?

And so I complain, in the bitterness of my soul, and speak in the
anguish of my spirit, and do not restrain my mouth.

Yet some things I know;
some things I remember.

I know that praise is due to you, O God, and what you expect of me
I must do; and I remember that you answer prayer.

That is sufficient.