Glad Enough to Sing--April 13, 2013

[from May 7, 2011 archive]

The trees and flowers, works of your hand,

have made me glad enough to sing for joy.

Now keep me from seeking any vain thing,

from worshiping anyone or anything but you.

Most of all, let me love, not in word or speech,

but in truth and action.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114

Dan. 3:19-30

1 John 3:11-18

Luke 4:1-13

Selected Verses

Ps. 92:4

For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work;
            at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

Dan. 3:28

Nebuchadnezzar said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him.  They disobeyed the king’s command and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.  …”

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

Luke 4:6-7

And the devil said to [Jesus], “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.  If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”