[From Oct. 5, 2011 archive]
Your eye is on all who hold you in awe,
on those who hope in your steadfast love.
Where shall we go, and who will teach us
why you desire mercy, not sacrifice?
Perhaps we should go to the covenant people
and drink with them the covenant cup,
and drinking remember the merciful One
who gave himself as a sacrifice.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33
2 Kings 22:14-23:3
1 Cor. 11:23-34
Matt. 9:9-17
Selected Verses
Ps. 33:18
Truly the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his steadfast love…
2 Kings 23:3
The king [Josiah] stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people joined in the covenant.
1 Cor. 11:25
In the same way [Jesus] took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Matt. 9:13
“…Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.” [Jesus, to the Pharisees who had asked why he ate with tax collectors and sinners]
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