Your Words Go Out, O God--Aug. 18, 2013

 There is no speech, your voice is not heard,

yet your words go out throughout the earth.

When we give advice, and our voice

is not heard, we are greatly upset;

but you spoke through Jesus,

through his words and his works,

that we might receive the promise

of the Spirit through faith.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 19; 150; 81; 113

2 Sam. 17:1-23

Gal. 3:6-14

John 5:30-47 

Selected Verses

Ps. 19:3-4

 There is no speech, nor are there words;
          their voice is not heard;

yet their voice goes out through all the earth,
          and their words to the end of the world.

2 Sam. 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city.  He set his house in order, and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Gal. 3:14

…in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

John 5:36

But I have a testimony greater than John’s.  The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.