Deep into the Well of Living Water--Aug. 13, 2014

[From Aug. 15, 2012 archive]

Your name, like the understanding of who you are,

is too wonderful for us.

We make our feeble attempts, not only to understand you,

but to manipulate and control you.

You frustrate our plans.

We think we are too important to perform humble service,

only to find that some designated for humble service

outshine our own attempts at "higher things."

Teach us to hope in your steadfast love, dipping deep

into the well of your living water;

and we will begin to understand.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33

Judg. 13:15-24

Acts 6:1-15

John 4:1-26

Selected Verses

Ps. 33:10, 22

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
          he frustrates the plans of the peoples.  …

Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us,
          even as we hope in you.

Judg. 13:18

But the angel of the LORD said to [Manoah], "Why do you ask my name?  It is too wonderful."

Acts 6:8

And the twelve called together the whole community of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables. …"

John 4:11

The woman said to [Jesus], "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep.  Where do you get that living water?  …"