Surely, God, good works are not meaningless;
for Jesus said it was by his good works
we would know you were in him
and that he was in you.
And Jeremiah promised
his people that if they turned
away from their evil doings
they might escape disaster.
Yet it is through your grace
that we are able to reap with joy,
even though we have sown in tears.
By grace we know you are in Christ,
and he is in you, and we are in him;
by grace we receive forgiveness,
by grace change our ways
from bad to good.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Jer. 26:1-24
Rom. 11:1-12
John 10:19-42
Selected Verses
Ps. 126:5
May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.
Jer. 26:3
It may be that [the cities of Judah] will listen, all of them, and will turn from their evil way, that I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on them because of their evil doings. [The LORD, to Jeremiah]
Rom. 11:5-6
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
John 10:38
“…But if I do [the works of my Father], even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” [Jesus, to his critics]
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