What Do We Know of God?--July 19, 2015

[From July 17, 2011 archive]

What do we know about you, God?

Much we do not know,

but enough we know.

Enough to realize we fall far short

of what you command, and that

you are gracious and good.

What do we know about ourselves?

Much we think we know, but do not.

Who can detect their hidden faults?

In your wisdom, O God,

do not let us shut ourselves in

with gates and bars.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 19; 150; 81; 113

1 Sam. 23:7-18

Rom. 11:33-12:2

Matt. 25:14-30

Selected Verses

Ps. 19:12

But who can detect their errors?
          Clear me from hidden faults. 

1 Sam. 23:7

Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah.  And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.” 

Rom. 11:33

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 

Matt. 25:26

"…But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter?  …'" [Jesus, from his parable about the talents, as told to his disciples]