God, Let Me Hear What You Will Speak--Dec. 10, 2019

There are many who purport to hear you speaking, O God.

Some report hearing a loud voice like a trumpet;

others hear you in complete silence.

In either case, the words may be too heavy to bear,

but that by itself is no proof the words

originated from you.

Help us to hear the words that really come from you,

words to your faithful, who turn to you

in their hearts.

I pray that these will include words of peace,

words that remind us to love you,

and to love our neighbor,

and even ourselves.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 33; 146; 85; 94

Amos 7:10-17

Rev. 1:9-16

Matt. 22:34-46

Selected Verses

Ps. 85:8

Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,
          for he will speak peace to his people,
          to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

Amos 7:10

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

Rev. 1:10-11

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, "Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

Matt. 22:37-39

[Jesus] said to [the lawyer], "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'  This is the greatest and first commandment.  And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' …"