God, Our Dwelling Place--Dec. 5, 2020

 In all generations you have been our dwelling place, O God.

Before the mountains, before the earth and our world,

from everlasting to everlasting, you are God,

our shade by day from the heat—

our shelter from the storm.

 

As for us, the day will come

when everything we have made,

and all the beauty we have created, 

will be thrown down, and nothing left.

 

But that does not matter, nor does even death.

There is no cause to grieve, for everlasting 

to everlasting, you are God, our hope

and our dwelling place.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 90; 149; 80; 72

Isa. 4:2-6

1 Thess. 4:13-18

Luke 21:5-19

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 90:1-2

Lord, you have been our dwelling place
          in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
          or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
          from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

 

Isa. 4:5b-6

Indeed over all the glory there will be a canopy.  It will serve as a pavilion, a shade by day from the heat, and a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

 

1 Thess. 4:13

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 

 

Luke 21:5-6

When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, [Jesus] said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down.”