Precious in the Sight of God--Oct. 28, 2021

[From Oct. 31, 2019 archive]

 

God of Heaven, seated on the throne,

and Lamb of God, who takes away our sin,

every creature in heaven and on earth 

and under the earth and in the sea

join us to sing your blessing. 

 

We sit and weep, 

mourning the deaths 

of your faithful ones.

 

Precious in your sight, 

good soil for the seed 

you had sown in them, 

they bore good fruit.

God, we thank you 

for their lives.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 116; 147:12-20 ; 26; 130

Neh. 1:1-11

Rev. 5:11-6:11

Matt. 13:18-23

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 116:15

Precious in the sight of the LORD
          is the death of his faithful ones.

 

Neh. 1:4

When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

 

Rev. 5:13

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing,
     “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb
     be blessing and honor and glory and might
     forever and ever!"

 

Matt. 13:23

But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]