Sheep of Your Pasture--Nov. 21, 2020

God Most Holy, you have made us, 

and we are yours, your people,

the sheep of your pasture.

We revere your name.  

 

Teach us to pray for one another, 

but not to judge one another,

and help us to remember 

that you are righteous

and we are not.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 122; 149; 100 63

Mal. 3:13-4:6

James 5:13-20

Luke 18:9-14

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 100:3

Know that the LORD is God.
          It is he that made us, and we are his;
          we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

 

Mal. 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. 

 

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed.  The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. 

 

Luke 18:13-14

“…But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’  I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other; for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”  [Jesus, to some who trusted in themselves as righteous and regarded others with contempt]