How Could My Meditation Be Acceptable?--Dec, 27, 2018

[Explanation: My archives on this blog go back to 2004, but my

journal entries precede them.  Today's is from Dec. 27, 2000.]

Lord, in your wisdom you rejoice

  over the world you have made.

As I bow before you now,

let my words and my thoughts

be acceptable to you, my rock and

my redeemer.

Let also what I do tomorrow be acceptable,

which is to say, let me live in love

for you and for all you have created.

To love you is to keep your commandments.

Of my own efforts, that would be impossible, but with

you to guide me, to live within and through me,

keeping your commandments would be not

a burden, but a joy.  And then my

words and meditation would

become acceptable

to you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 34; 147:12-20; 19; 121

Prov. 8:22-30

1 John 5:1-12

John 13:20-35

Selected Verses

Ps. 34:14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
          be acceptable to you,
          O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

Prov. 8:30

          then I [Wisdom] was beside [the LORD], like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
          rejoicing before him always.

1 John 5:3b-4a

And his commandments are not burdensome, for whatever is born of God conquers the world. 

John 13:35

"…By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."  [Jesus, at table with his disciples]