To Hear the Voice of Jesus--Feb. 23, 2021

 

Holy One, you call us to taste and see that you are good

and promise happiness to those who rest in you. 

Not because we are righteous do you call,

for no, we are a stubborn people.

 

But we remember Jesus, how he rose from the dead;

God, soften our hard hearts to hear his voice

and to follow the word he has spoken.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 34; 146; 25; 91

Deut. 9:1-12

Heb. 3:1-11

John 2:13-22

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 34:8

 O taste and see that the LORD is good;
          happy are those who take refuge in him.

 

Deut. 9:6

Know, then, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to occupy because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.

 

Heb. 3:7-8

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
         “Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
          as on the day of testing in the wilderness…”

 

John 2:22

After [Jesus] was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.