To Give You the Things that Are Yours--Dec. 3, 2014

To honor you we bring to you a sacrifice,

O God, our sacrifice of thanksgiving.

You have given us your word--may we

constantly give you thanks for it  

and pray it may be at work among us.

Teach us your ways, that we may walk

in your paths and may give you

the things that are yours.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 50; 147:1-11; 53; 17

Isa. 2:1-4

1 Thess. 2:13-20

Luke 20:19-26

Selected Verses

Ps. 50:23

"…Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me;

            to those who go the right way

            I will show the salvation of God."

Isa. 2:3a

            Many peoples shall come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
            to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
            and that we may walk in his paths." 

1 Thess. 2:13

We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God's word, which is also at work in you believers. 

Luke 20:25

[Jesus] said to [the spies sent to trap him], "Then give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's."