Though We Question in Our Hearts--May 3, 2019

You are the God we want to serve;

pray fulfill your purpose for us.

 

We are your children now--

what we will be has not been revealed,

but we want to be like Jesus.

There is much we question in our hearts,

but you have delivered us in the past,

and we believe in your steadfast love,

and that you will not forsake

the work of your hands.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138

Dan. 3:1-18

1 John 3:1-10

Luke 3:15-22

Selected Verses

Ps. 138:8

The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
          your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
          Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Dan. 3:17-18

If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire and out of your hand, O king, let him deliver us.  But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods and we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.”

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.

Luke 3:15-22

As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah