A Double Share--Sept. 19, 2021

[From Sept. 17, 2005 archive]

 

Surrounded on every side, surrounded by bees,

by a fire of thorns, only you can help us.

 

Give us a double share of your Spirit;

give us someone who is not only your servant

but a steward of your mysteries;

 

give us the One who came

to fulfill the law and the prophets.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111
2 Kings 2:1-18
1 Cor. 4:1-7
Matt. 5:17-20

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 118:11-12
[All nations] surrounded me, surrounded me on every side;
            in the name of the LORD I cut them off! 
They surrounded me like bees;
            they blazed like a fire of thorns;
            in the name of the LORD I cut them off! 

 

2 Kings 2:9
When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me what I may do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit."

 

1 Cor. 4:1
Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

 

Matt. 5:17
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. ..." [Jesus, seated on the mountain]

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