O Lord God, you know the human heart,
and you know how the innocent suffer,
though you make no distinctions.
Children suffer for the wrongs of their parents;
religious leaders think you are theirs only;
they even persecuted your Son.
If only we, your people, would listen to you,
if only we would walk in your ways!
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 19; 150; 81; 113
Num. 14:26-45
Acts 15:1-12
Luke 12:49-56
Selected Verses
Ps. 81:13
O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
that Israel would walk in my ways!
Num. 14:33
“…And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. …” [The LORD’s message to the Israelites, to be delivered by Moses]
Acts 15:8-9
“…And God, who knows the human heart, testified to [the Gentiles] by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us; and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us. …” [Peter, to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem]
Luke 12:50
“…I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! …” [Jesus, to his disciples]
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