Welcome, Jesus--March 2, 2021

God, all your paths are steadfast love and faithfulness.

Forbid that we should become futile in our thinking,

 

and that with darkened minds, claiming to be wise,

we should forsake you, O fountain of living water.

 

We have seen what you have done through Jesus;

may we welcome him into our hearts.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 34; 146; 25; 91

Jer. 2:1-13, 29-32

Rom. 1:16-25

John 4:43-54

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 25:10

All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,
          for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

 

Jer. 2:13

…for my people have committed two evils:
          they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
          and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
          that can hold no water.

 

Rom. 1:21-22

…for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened.  Claiming to be wise, they became fools…

 

John 4:45a

When [Jesus] came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival…