Let a Door Stand Open, Jesus--Oct. 26, 2021

[From Oct. 25, 2011 archive; adapted from my journal of Oct. 26, 1999]

 

May your eye be upon me, O God,

lest the words of my mouth 

be mischief and conceit.

 

I want to be fertile soil for the seeds you sow,

but thorns grow up and choke them out,

and I fail to act wisely or do good. 

 

Most merciful God, unless you leave

a door standing open for me, 

how can I enter in?

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 12; 146; 36; 7

Ezra 5:1-17 

Rev. 4:1-11

Matt. 13:1-9

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 36:3

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; 
          they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

 

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and [the officials who questioned them for building the temple] did not stop them until a report reached Darius and then answer was returned by letter in reply to it.

 

Rev. 4:1a

After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open!

 

Matt. 13:7

“…Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.  …”  [Jesus, to the crowds]