[From June 17, 2016
archive]
Create in me a clean heart, O God;
put a new and right spirit within me.
Give me a heart that sees opportunity
in situations fraught with difficulties;
a heart grateful for your mercy,
ready to show mercy to others;
a heart filled with your Spirit.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 51; 148;
142; 65
Num. 13:1-3,
21-30
Rom. 2:25-3:8
Matt. 18:21-35
Selected Verses
Ps.
97:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and
put a new and right spirit within me.
Num. 13:30
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let
us go up at once and occupy [the land that Moses had sent them to spy out], for
we are well able to overcome it."
Rom. 2:29
Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real
circumcision is a matter of the heart--it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others
but from God.
Matt. 18:33
"…'Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as
I had mercy on you?' …" [In
Jesus' parable, the master to the slave he had forgiven]
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