To All Made of Dust--Nov. 1, 2020

In some ways we are all alike, in some ways different.

Help us remember, God, you made us all from dust. 

 

And you gifted each of us, though the gifts varied.

Importantly, we each must use the gift received.

 

At times all have turned back from following you

or not remembered to seek and enquire of you.

 

But when we ask your forgiveness, you grant it;

so we must be forgiving, to all made of dust.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Zeph. 1:1-6

1 Cor. 12:27-13:13

Matt. 18:21-35

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 103:14

For [the LORD] knows how we were made;
          he remembers that we are dust.

 

Zeph. 1:6

…those who have turned back from following the Lord,
     who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

 

1 Cor. 12:29

Are all apostles?  Are all prophets?  Are all teachers?  Do all work miracles?  Do all possess gifts of healing?  Do all speak in tongues?  Do all interpret?

 

Matt. 18:33

“…‘Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?  …’”  [The master, to the slave he had forgiven, in Jesus’ parable]