What Will the Child Become?--Dec. 22, 2013

 You are great, O God; there is no other.

When a child is born, we ponder--

what will she or he become?

But no one can answer;

we can only pray.

And so we pray

that your hand will be

with the child, and when in

trouble, that you will pluck their

feet out of the net, and that the blessing

of Abraham might come to the child

so that he or she might receive

the promise of the Spirit

through faith.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 24; 150; 25; 110

2 Sam. 7:18-29

Gal. 3:1-14

Luke 1:57-66

Selected Verses

Ps. 25:15

My eyes are ever toward the LORD,
          for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

2 Sam. 7:22

"…Therefore you are great, O LORD God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.  …  "  [David's prayer]

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.

Luke 1:66

All who heard [the things about Elizabeth's baby] pondered them and said, "What then will this child become?"  For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.