From the Rising of the Sun--Dec. 2, 2020

 

Our God, mighty in power, 

from the rising of the sun,

you speak and summon us.

 

Let your word be at work in us,

that you may teach us your ways

and that we may walk in your paths.

 

Then we shall realize—all things are yours,

for you made them, and you made us,

and from the rising of the sun

to its setting, we are yours.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 50; 147:1-11; 53; 17

Isa. 2:1-4

1 Thess. 2:13-20

Luke 20:19-26

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 50:1

The mighty one, God the LORD,

          speaks and summons the earth

          from the rising of the sun to its setting.

 

Isa. 2:3b

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
          to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
          and that we may walk in his paths.”

 

1 Thess. 2:13

We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers. 

 

Luke 20:25

[Jesus] said to [those who wanted to trap him], “Then give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”