To See Ourselves with Your Eyes--Oct. 11, 2017

You love righteousness and justice, O God,

and the earth is full of your steadfast love.

Nevertheless, you sent Jesus to call sinners,

not the righteous.

Give us penitent hearts, that we may humble

ourselves before you,

for if we were to see ourselves with your eyes,

we would find reason for humility.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33

2 Kings 22:14-23:3

1 Cor. 11:23-34

Matt. 9:9-17

Selected Verses

Ps. 33:5

[The LORD] loves righteousness and justice;
          the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

2 Kings 22:19

"…because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.  …"  [God speaking through Huldah to King Josiah]

1 Cor. 11:31-32

But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.  But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Matt. 9:13

"…Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'  For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners."  [Jesus to the Pharisees]