Things We Know About You, God--March 14, 2013

There is much we do not know about you, O God,

but we know you have done great things for

us, and we know that we must defend

the cause of the poor and needy.

We don't know how to pray as we ought,

but we know your Spirit helps us--

in our weakness intercedes with

sighs too deep for words.

We don't know how Jesus came down from

heaven to be born the son of Joseph

and Mary, but we know him to

be our Lord and Savior.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Jer. 22:13-23

Rom. 8:12-27

John 6:41-51

Selected Verses

Ps. 126:3

The LORD has done great things for us,
          and we rejoiced.

Jer. 22:16

[Your father] judged the cause of the poor and needy;
          then it was well.
Is not this to know me?
          says the LORD.

Rom. 8:26

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.

John 6:42

[Those complaining] were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?  How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”