What We Sow, We Reap--Feb. 7, 2015

[From Feb. 7, 2009 archive]

Why can’t we do the things you did, Jesus?

Why is your glorious power not manifest in us?

You ask us to maintain justice and do what is right,

but we are not able.  As a result, we reap what we sow.

We live in a world of violence and terror, of war and

threat of war, of poverty and disease.  You have

promised that your salvation will come soon

and that your deliverance will be revealed.

Dare we pray for that coming?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90

Isa. 56:1-8

Gal. 5:25-6:10

Mark 9:14-29

Selected Verses

Ps. 90:16

Let your work be manifest to your servants,

            and your glorious power to their children.

Isa. 56:1

Thus says the LORD:

Maintain justice, and do what is right,

for soon my salvation will come,

and my deliverance be revealed.

Gal. 6:7-8

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.  If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Mark 9:28

When [Jesus] had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast [the unclean spirit] out?”