Awesome God, Awesome Deeds--Feb. 3, 2019

[From Jan. 30, 2011 archive, adapted from Jan. 31, 1999]

O God, you are awesome in your deeds.

You have stretched out the heavens

and built the foundations of the earth.

You have claimed your people,

put words in our mouths, and

hidden us in the shadow of your hand.

You have prepared for us a city;

and to make us ready for it, you have

sent one in whom there is nothing false.

May we seek not our own glory,

but the glory of the one you sent,

whose life is the most awesome of your deeds.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 108; 150; 66; 23

Isa. 51:9-16

Heb. 11:8-16

John 7:14-31

Selected Verses

Ps. 66:5

Come and see what God has done:

            he is awesome in his deeds among mortals.

Isa. 51:16

I have put my words in your mouth,
            and hidden you in the shadow of my hand,
stretching out the heavens
            and laying the foundations of the earth,
            and saying to Zion, “You are my people.”

Heb. 11:10

For [Abraham] looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

John 7:18

“…Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.  …”  [Jesus, in the temple, responding to those who questioned his teaching credentials]