When Our Hearts Grow Dull--May 18, 2020

O God, our Rescuer, Guard of our lives,

you have brought us out of darkness

and rescued us from wickedness,

transferred into the kingdom

of your Son, the Beloved.

When we fail to hear,

when we shut our eyes,

when our hearts grow dull,

so we no longer understand,

then turn us back to you, heal us.

Forgive our sins and make us faithful,

to be your servant people.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 145; 124; 115

Lev. 25:35-55

Col. 1:9-14

Matt. 13:1-16

Selected Verses

Ps. 97:10

The LORD loves those who hate evil;
          he guards the lives of his faithful;
          he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

Lev. 25:55

For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.  [The LORD, to Moses]

Col. 1:13-14

[The Father] has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Matt. 13:1-16

“‘For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn—and I would heal them.’  …”  [Jesus, quoting Isaiah to his disciples]