When We Ask and You Do Not Answer--July 22, 2021

[From July 25, 2013 archive]

 

Jesus, continue your steadfast love to those who know you.

Sometimes we inquire of you, and you do not answer.

Remind us, then, how much you have done for us;

remind us what mercy you have shown us—

that it is by your grace we are saved,

not by our efforts to reach you.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27

1 Sam. 28:3-20; 

Acts 15:1-11; 

Mark 5:1-20

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 36:10 

O continue your steadfast love to those who know you,  
          and your salvation to the upright of heart! 

 

1 Sam. 28:6 

When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, not by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. 

 

Acts 15:11 

“…On the contrary, we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.  …”  [Peter, to the advocates of circumcision] 

 

Mark 5:19 

But Jesus refused, and said to [the former demoniac], “Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.”