Like the Smoke of a Furnace--Feb. 1, 2016

God of all creation,

you make the invisible visible;

God, you are divine--we are not--

yet we forget that we are only human.

Help us to receive your Bread, whom you

sent down from heaven to give life to the world,

lest we so destroy our world that the only thing left is

the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 62; 145; 73; 9

Gen. 19:1-29

Heb. 11:1-12

John 6:27-40

Selected Verses

Ps. 9:20

Put them in fear, O LORD;
          let the nations know that they are only human.  Selah

Gen. 19:27-28

Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD; and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Heb. 11:3

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.

John 6:33

"…For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."  [Jesus to the crowd]