Rescued by Your Hand--Feb. 3, 2020

[Adapted from Feb. 2, 2004 archive]

I linger, uncertain.  Like Lot the challenge

seems too great, and I am mired in the past.

I want to wallow in my failures, surrender to

despair, disregard the work you are performing.

But you are merciful.  You seize me by the hand

and bring me out to accept your forgiveness.

I will be glad and exult in you;

I will sing praise to your name;

I will trust that you are faithful

in doing what you have promised.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 62; 145; 73; 9

Gen. 19:1-29

Heb. 11:1-12

John 6:27-40

Selected Verses

Ps. 9:2

I will be glad and exult in you;

            I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Gen. 19:16

But [Lot] lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city.

Heb. 11:11

By faith [Abraham] received power of procreation, even though he was too old—and Sarah herself was barren—because he considered him faithful who had promised.

John 6:30

So [the crowd that had come looking for Jesus] said to him, “What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you?  What work are you performing?  …”