Write Words of Love upon My Heart--Feb. 28, 2019

Heaven is your throne, O God, and the earth is your footstool,

but your kindness does not forsake the living or the dead.

Write words of love upon my heart, to be read by all.

I am your servant, the child of your serving girl;

through Christ you have loosed my bonds.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116

Ruth 2:14-23

2 Cor. 3:1-18

Matt. 5:27-37

Selected Verses

Ps. 116:16

O LORD, I am your servant;
          I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.
          You have loosed my bonds.

Ruth 2:20a

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" 

2 Cor. 3:2-3a

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 …

Matt. 5:34-35

"…But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.  …" [Jesus, to the crowd on the mountain]