In Whom God's Soul Delights--Jan. 18, 2019

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O God of our salvation,

our hope and our deliverer,

you have given us Christ Jesus--

in whom your soul delights--

to be your servant and to

bring forth justice.  

Through our faith in Christ,

we approach you in boldness

and with confidence.  Fill us with

your new wine, that we may

follow him, serving you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 51; 148; 142; 65

Isa. 42:1-17

Eph. 3:1-13

Mark 2:13-22

Selected Verses

Ps. 65:5

By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
          O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
          and of the farthest seas. 

Isa. 42:1

 Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
          my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my spirit upon him;
          he will bring forth justice to the nations. 

Eph. 3:11-12

This was in accordance with the eternal purpose that he has carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have access to God in boldness and confidence through faith in him. 

Mark 2:22

"…And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."  [Jesus, to those who asked him why his disciples did not fast]