When You Answer Us with Deliverance--Oct. 21, 2020

 

God of our salvation, by awesome deeds

you answer us with deliverance. 

You are our hope. 

 

Yet we must not take you for granted,

nor use you to keep us safe 

when we are foolish. 

 

You give us authority to act for good;

and we are grateful for the gift,

but it’s not for boasting.

 

Sometimes there is silence in heaven; 

we wait for you to break it,

praying as we wait.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 65: 147:1-11; 125; 91

Micah 3:9-4:5

Rev. 8:1-13

Luke 10:17-24

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 65:5

By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
          O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
          and of the farthest seas.

 

Micah 3:11b

…yet they lean upon the LORD and say,
     “Surely the LORD is with us!
       No harm shall come upon us.”

 

Rev. 8:1

When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 

 

Luke 10:19-20

“…See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you.  Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”  [Jesus, to the seventy returning to him]