More that Nahum Did Not Tell Us?--Oct. 31, 2012

 According to Nahum, you are great in power;

and by no means will you clear the guilty.

If that is so, how can I join the trees and

sing for joy when you come to judge the earth?

For I have not made myself clean, not given for

alms all within in me that causes you pain.

Have you prepared a place in the wilderness

for sinners like me--a place to find nourishment?

Could it be, O God, that there is more about

your power, more that Nahum did not tell us?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 147:1-11; 132; 134

Nahum 1:1-14

Rev. 12:1-6

Luke 11:37-52

 

Selected Verses

Ps. 96:12b-13a

Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy

            before the LORD; for he is coming,
            for he is coming to judge the earth.

Nahum 1:3a

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
            and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.

Rev. 12:5-6

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron.  But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne; and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

Luke 11:41

"…So give for alms those things that are within; and see, everything will be clean for you.  …"  [Jesus to the Pharisee who invited him for dinner]