Truly an Awesome God--Feb. 20, 2021

 

Great and awesome God, be present with us.

We are beset like a city under siege.

 

Save us, not because of our good works,

but, according to your mercy,

renew us with your Spirit.

 

Wondrously, you show your steadfast love,

and still you promise greater things; 

truly, you are an awesome God.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Deut. 7:17-26

Titus 3:1-15

John 1:43-51

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 31:21

Blessed be the LORD,
          for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
          when I was beset as a city under siege.

 

Deut. 7:21

Have no dread of [other peoples], for the LORD your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God.

 

Titus 3:5

…[God] saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

 

John 1:50

Jesus answered [Nathanael], “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree?  You will see greater things than these.”