Your Love, Better than Life--Oct. 30, 2021

[From Nov. 2, 2013 archive]

 

You are able 

to take the tiniest 

thing we do and make 

of it a marvelous blessing. 

 

Give us a mind to do your work; 

your steadfast love is better than life.

 

Blessing and glory and wisdom 

and thanksgiving and honor

and power and might be 

to you forever and 

ever, O God! 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90

Neh. 4:1-23 OR Lam. 5:1-22

Rev. 7:4-17

Matt. 13:31-35

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 63:3 

Because your steadfast love is better than life, 
          my lips will praise you. 

 

Neh. 4:6 

So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. 

 

Rev. 7:12 

…singing, 
     “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom 
     and thanksgiving and honor 
     and power and might 
     be to our God forever and ever!  Amen.” 

 

Matt. 13:31-32 

[Jesus] put before [his disciples] another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”