To Be Your Salty People--Feb. 9, 2021

 

Gracious God, you watch over the alien and the oppressed;

give us a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline,

 

that we may watch over them, too—

to break the bonds of injustice

and to free the oppressed, 

 

share bread with the hungry,

house the homeless,

clothe the naked, 

and be at peace.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133

Isa. 58:1-12

2 Tim. 1:1-14

Mark 9:42-50 

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 146:9

The LORD watches over the strangers;
          he upholds the orphan and the widow,
          but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

 

Isa. 58:6-7

Is not this the fast that I choose:
          to loose the bonds of injustice,
          to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
          and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
          and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them,
          and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

 

2 Tim. 1:7

…for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

 

Mark 9:50b

“…Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]