One Thing I Ask, O God--Feb. 18, 2021

 

One thing I ask of you, O God; 

all the rest of my days,

one thing I seek:

 

to live with you,

and behold your beauty, 

and inquire of your will for me.

 

You know I am not pure or holy,

no human is, nor is anyone 

completely corrupt.

 

Therefore, I thank you

for having given us the Lamb

who takes away the sin of the world.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Deut. 7:6-11

Titus 1:1-16

John 1:29-34 

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 27:4

One thing I asked of the LORD,
          that will I seek after:
to live in the house of the LORD
          all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD,
          and to inquire in his temple.

 

Deut. 7:6

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

 

Titus 1:15a

To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure.

 

John 1:29

The next day [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!  …”