There Is Forgiveness with You, O Christ--March 14, 2014

 

You belong to God, O Christ,

and we desire to belong to you.

If you should mark iniquities, that

desire would fail--for who could stand?

But we have hope, for you preferred to eat

with sinners, not with the ones deemed righteous.

Too easily we forget those who do us favors;

too well do we remember those who do us wrong.

You are not like us; there is forgiveness with you,

and we give you thanks, and we revere you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130

Gen. 40:1-23

1 Cor. 3:16-23

Mark 2:13-22

Selected Verses

Ps. 130:3-4

 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
          Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with you,
          so that you may be revered.

Gen. 40:23

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

1 Cor. 3:23

…and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Mark 2:16

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does [Jesus] eat with tax collectors and sinners?"