Written on Our Hearts, Not to Be Ignored--March 21, 2018

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[From April 9, 2014 archive]

How good it is to sing

praise to you, O God,

for you are most gracious

and a song of praise is fitting.

God, make our hearts tablets--let your

Spirit write on them letters to be read by all.

Write messages there that even the cruelest cynic,

the hardest heart, cannot ignore, and go into his house.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51

Exod. 7:8-24

2 Cor. 2:14-3:6

Mark 10:1-16

Selected Verses

Ps. 147:1

 Praise the Lord!
          How good it is to sing praises to our God;
          for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting. 

Exod. 7:23

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even [turning all the water into blood] to heart. 

2 Cor. 3:2-3

You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all; and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Mark 10:5

But Jesus said to [the Pharisees], "Because of your hardness of heart [Moses] wrote this commandment for you.  …"