Cast Upon Your Mercy--August 14, 2015

[From August 12, 2011 archive]

Open my lips, prayed the psalmist.

Open my eyes, begged blind Bartimaeus.

Get up and be baptized, Ananias advised Paul.

Simple, direct…

but when David climbed barefoot

and bareheaded up the Mount of Olives,

life was not simple for him.

All David could do was repent

and cast himself upon your mercy.

Come to think of it, that's what the psalmist

 and Bartimaeus and Paul did, too.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 51; 148; 142; 65

2 Sam. 15:19-37

Acts 21:37-22:16

Mark10:46-52

Selected Verses

Ps. 51:15

O Lord, open my lips,
          and my mouth will declare your praise.

2 Sam. 15:30

But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and walking barefoot; and all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

Acts 21:37-22:16

"'…And now why do you delay?  Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’”  [Ananias to Saul]

Mark 10:51

Then Jesus said to [Bartimaeus], “What do you want me to do for you?”  The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.”