Lord Jesus, it sounds like a hard assignment
to seek your presence continually.
It might mean finding your people at forced labor.
It could mean finding them enduring many
sufferings, being treated with contempt.
We might be called to give away all our possessions,
then even to hand over our bodies for you.
And the unkindest cut--it all could mean nothing,
if we do these things without love.
to seek your presence continually.
It might mean finding your people at forced labor.
It could mean finding them enduring many
sufferings, being treated with contempt.
We might be called to give away all our possessions,
then even to hand over our bodies for you.
And the unkindest cut--it all could mean nothing,
if we do these things without love.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Exod. 2:1-22
1 Cor. 12:27-13:3
Mark 9:2-13
Selected Verses
Ps. 105:4
Seek the LORD and his strength;
seek his presence continually.
Exod. 2:11a
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor.
1 Cor. 13:3
If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Mark 9:12
[Jesus] said to [his three disciples], "Elijah is indeed coming first to restore all things. How then is it written about the Son of Man, that he is to go through many sufferings and be treated with contempt? …"
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