Fill Us with Your Steadfast Love--July 15, 2020

O Lover of Righteousness and Justice,

it is not always easy to draw near

to you to hear your words;

some make us squirm.

We cannot give you gifts

to bribe you into accepting us,

or getting you to do what we want.

Yet the earth is full of your steadfast love,

not only for us, but for everyone—

hungry, thirsty, alien, naked,

sick, in prison—for all.

Grant that we may love them all

as you love them, and us,

and show our love

by our deeds.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33

Josh. 3:1-13

Rom. 11:25-36

Matt. 25:31-46

Selected Verses

Ps. 33:5

He loves righteousness and justice;
          the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

Josh. 3:9

Joshua then said to the Israelites, “Draw near and hear the words of the LORD your God.”

Rom. 11:35

“Or who has given a gift to [God], to receive a gift in return?”

Matt. 25:44

“…Then [those on  the king’s left] also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’…”  [Jesus, to his disciples, in the parable of the judgment of the nations]