Awesome Deeds of Deliverance--July 3, 2013

 O God of our salvation,

even if in the gall of bitterness and

the chains of wickedness we come to you,

by awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance.

Or if we boast we have not defrauded or oppressed

or accepted a bribe from the hand of anyone,

our only hope is still in you, and in the

One they mocked as pretend king.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 65; 147:1-11; 125; 91

1 Sam. 12:1-25

Acts 8:14-25

Luke 23:1-12

Selected Verses

Ps. 65:5

By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
          O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
          and of the farthest seas.  

1 Sam. 12:4

[All Israel] said [to Samuel], “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

Acts 8:23

"…For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the chains of wickedness.”  [Peter to Simon, who tried to bribe Peter into giving him the power of the Spirit]

Luke 23:11

Even Herod with his soldiers treated [Jesus] with contempt and mocked him; then he put an elegant robe on him, and sent him back to Pilate.