To Ponder Your Steadfast Love--Nov. 13, 2019

How do we ponder your steadfast love, O God,

when we remember the blood of prophets

and of saints, and all the slaughtered?

How can we fail to mourn and weep?

There is a time to mourn and weep,

but when we ponder the compassion

of Jesus for the crowd, how he did not want

them to go hungry, then we find a time to rejoice.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 15; 147:1-11; 48; 4

Neh. 7:73b-8:3, 5-18

Rev. 18:21-24

Matt. 15:29-39

Selected Verses

We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
          in the midst of your temple.

Neh. 8:9

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.”

Rev. 18:24

“…And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
          and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”

[A mighty angel, to Babylon the great city]

Matt. 15:32

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”