Pressing Onward to Your Heavenly Call--Feb. 15, 2018

O God, you are my light and my salvation;

you are the stronghold of my life.

Whom shall I fear, and of whom be afraid?

Even if faced with total devastation,

yet help me to rejoice in your name and to

exult in you, God of my salvation.

Forgetting what lies behind and straining

forward to what lies ahead, may I

press ever on toward your heavenly call,

that I may know you, the true God,

and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent--

for this, he has said, is eternal life.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Hab. 3:1-18

Phil. 3:12-21

John 17:1-8

Selected Verses

Ps. 27:1

The LORD is my light and my salvation;
          whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life;
          of whom shall I be afraid?

Hab. 3:17-18

Though the fig tree does not blossom,

          and no fruit is on the vines;

though the produce of the olive fails

          and the fields yield no food;

though the flock is cut off from the fold

          and there is no herd in the stalls,

yet I will rejoice in the LORD;

          I will exult in the God of my salvation.

Phil. 3:13-14

Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

John 17:3

"…And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.  …"  [Jesus to his disciples]