How far Your Wonders Are Known--July 31, 2015
[From July 31, 2009 archive]
Are your wonders known
to us when we have
passed into the darkness
and forgetfulness of death?
Are the dead excluded
from your house, as David
in his sarcasm excluded
the blind and lame?
The wonders that Jesus
performed did not escape notice,
not even the notice of
foreigners, and you denied your love
neither to a poor
Gentile woman nor to Greeks of high standing.
May we place no limits
on how far your wonders are known.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 88; 148; 6; 20
2 Sam. 5:1-12
Acts 17:1-15
Mark 7:24-37
Selected Verses
Ps. 88:12
Are your wonders known in the darkness,
or your
saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
2 Sam. 5:8
David had said on that day, “Whoever wishes to strike down the
Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind,
those whom David hates.” Therefore it is
said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”
Acts 17:1-15
Many of [the Jews in Beroea] therefore believed, including not
a few Greek women and men of high standing.
Mark 7:24b-26a
[Jesus] entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was
there. Yet he could not escape notice,
but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about
him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin.
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