The Abundance of Your House--June 27, 2013

 O God, you are generous to all people;

you intend that we should feast on the abundance

of your house and drink from the river of your delights.

But we refuse to listen to you or those who speak for you.

We covet the honors and benefits that others enjoy;

we are jealous of anyone more important.

God, have mercy upon us;

Christ have mercy.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27

1 Sam. 8:1-22

Acts 6:15-7:16

Luke 22:24-30

Selected Verses

Ps. 36:8

[All people] feast on the abundance of your house,
          and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

1 Sam. 8:19-20

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! but we are determined to have a king over us, so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

Acts 7:9a

“…The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt…"  [Stephen, speaking before the high priest]

Luke 22:24

A dispute also arose among [the disciples] as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.