We think we know what is dependable and permanent;
you show us how trivial and transient it may be.
We treasure what makes us seem important,
only to learn how quickly it perishes.
We elaborate weighty rules and regulations to control behavior,
supposing by this we have settled matters for all time—
but others find ways to circumvent or ignore them.
One thing matters, one thing endures:
we must walk with you in love.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138
Dan. 6:1-15
2 John 1-13
Luke 5:12-26
Selected Verses
Ps. 49:12
Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.
Dan. 6:15
Then the conspirators came to the king and said to him, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”
2 John 6
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.
Luke 5:26
Amazement seized all of [the scribes and Pharisees], and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
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