Better than Life, God's Steadfast Love--March 2, 2019

Not only is your steadfast love better than life,

it is in this love that we find life eternal.

How to maintain our name on our inheritance,

or the wasting away of our outer nature,

or even the reward we will receive in heaven--

all these pale in importance compared

to the sure knowledge of your steadfast love.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63

Ruth 4:1-22

2 Cor. 4:13-5:10

Matt. 6:1-6

Selected Verses

Ps. 63:3

Because your steadfast love is better than life,
          my lips will praise you. 

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said [to Naomi's next of kin], "The day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also acquiring Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead man, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance." 

2 Cor. 4:16

So we do not lose heart.  Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. 

Matt. 6:6

"…But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you."  [Jesus to the crowd on the mountain]