With Your Eye upon Me--June 25, 2021

[From June 26, 2015 archive]

 

Our lives are full of strange turns and twists; 

one day Moses was a royal son, 

the next a fugitive killer. 

 

Saul went out to look for his lost donkeys 

and ran into the prophet who 

would anoint him king. 

 

And the Rabbi who had been preaching 

in the temple was to be counted 

among the lawless. 

Instruct me, O God, and teach me the way 

I should go; counsel me with 

your eye upon me. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 130; 148; 32; 139

1 Sam. 9:1-14

Acts 7:17-29

Luke 22:31-38

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 32:8 

 I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; 
          I will counsel you with my eye upon you. 

 

1 Sam. 9:13b-14 

“…Now go up, for you will meet [Samuel] immediately.”   So Saul and his servant] went up to the town.  As they were entering the town, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the shrine. 

 

Acts 7:28-29a 

“‘…Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian.  …”  [Stephen on trial before the council] 

 

Luke 22:37 

“…For I tell you, this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted among the lawless’; and indeed what is written about me is being fulfilled.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]