Our Hope is Set on You, Our Savior--Sept. 3, 2017

O Living God, there is no god like you in heaven above

or on earth beneath; your steadfast love is higher

than the heavens, and your faithfulness

reaches to the clouds.

Our hope is set on you, our Savior.

With all our heart may we walk

before you, listening for your word.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 108; 150; 66; 23

1 Kings 8:22-40

1 Tim. 4:7b-16

John 8:47-59

Selected Verses

Ps. 108:4

For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens,
          and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

1 Kings 8:23

[King Solomon] said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk before you with all their heart…"

1 Tim. 4:10

For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

John 8:47

"…Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God."  [Jesus to his opponents in the temple]