I Am Yours, Not My Own--March 12, 2020

[From March 20, 2014 archive]

Joseph's brothers told him they were honest men;

he knew they knew, they had not always been honest.

O God, make me honest with myself and with you;

may your Spirit live within me, that I may behold

your beauty and inquire into your will for me.

Then let me sleep while you scatter your seed;

and, in your own good time, may your

seed sprout and grow within me--

I am yours, not my own.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Gen. 42:29-38

1 Cor. 6:12-20

Mark 4:21-34

Selected Verses

Ps. 27:4c

 …to behold the beauty of the LORD,
          and to inquire in his temple.

Gen. 42:30-31

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us, and charged us with spying on the land.  But we said to him, ‘We are honest men, we are not spies.  …’”  [Jacob's sons reporting to him on their visit to Egypt]

1 Cor. 6:19

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Mark 4:26-27

[Jesus] also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.  …”