God of Mystery--Jan. 15, 2021

God, you desire truth in the inward being, 

though Jesus came to call sinners.

 

You speak to some through revelations, 

and lead the blind on new paths.

 

Though your ways are beyond our ken, 

we know you will not forsake us. 

 

Teach us wisdom in our secret hearts; 

turn our darkness into light.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 51; 148; 142; 65

Isa. 42:1-17

Eph. 3:1-13

Mark 2:13-22

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being;
          therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

 

Isa. 42:16

I will lead the blind
          by a road they do not know,
by paths they have not known
          I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
          the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
          and I will not forsake them.

 

Eph. 3:3

…and how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above in a few words…

 

Mark 2:17

When Jesus heard [complaints about his meeting with sinners], he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.”