Your Praise Continually in Our Mouth--Dec. 27, 2015

[From Dec. 27, 2005 archive]

What is eternal:

Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills—your Wisdom.

Before the earth and the fields, or the first bits of soil—you.

What is fleeting:

Human relations,

even your earthly presence with your disciples.

What endures:

Your testimony,

the testimony that you have testified to your Son.

What is for us to do at all times:

Bless you,

with  your praise continually in our mouth.

Readings

Ps. 34; 150; 19; 121
Prov. 8:22-30
1 John 5:1-12
John 13:20-35

Selections

Psalm 34:1

I will bless the LORD at all times;

his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Proverbs 8:25-26

Before the mountains had been shaped,

before the hills, I was brought forth—

when he had not yet made earth and fields,

or the world’s first bits of soil.

1 John 5:9

If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son.

John 13:33a

"…Little children, I am with you only a little longer.  …"  [Jesus, to the eleven at the Last Supper]