Our Advocate with God--Feb. 18, 2020

How we want others to regard us favorably, God!

But human opinions of others are unreliable,

 for we do not see to the heart as you see.

Ultimately, all that matters is your opinion of us,

and in that light we always fall far short;

yet we have an Advocate with you,

Jesus Christ the righteous.

You are good and forgiving,

abounding in steadfast love

to all who call on you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 123; 146; 30; 86

Gen. 31:1-24

1 John 2:1-11

John 9:18-41

Selected Verses

Ps. 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
          abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.

Gen. 31:2

And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him as favorably as he did before. 

1 John 2:1b

But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous…

John 9:24-25

So for the second time [those angry at Jesus] called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, “Give glory to God!  We know that this man [Jesus] is a sinner.”  He answered, “I do not know whether he is a sinner.  One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”