asking for more and more evidence
that you are who we want you to be.
You have told us plainly,
have not kept us in suspense;
but we are hard to satisfy.
Those who speak for you
have suffered persecution and death,
as their persecutors try to deny your truth.
But even when we distrust and deny,
you do not reject your people.
Though our parents forsake us,
you will take us up.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Jer. 26:1-24
Rom 11:1-12
John 10:19-42
Selected Verses
Ps. 27:10
If my father and mother forsake me,
the LORD will take me up.
Jer. 26:11
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man [Jeremiah] deserves the sentence of death because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
Rom 11:1a
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means!
John 10:24
So the Jews gathered around [Jesus] and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
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