Purify My Conscience--Jan. 25, 2022

[From Jan. 28, 2020 archive]

 

Purify my conscience from dead works,

O Christ, that I may worship the Living God.

Surely, you are my helper, the upholder of my life.

How am I to know this—through your Spirit.

Help me, O Spirit, and help me want

to be made well.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 54; 146; 28; 99

Gen. 15:1-11, 17-21

Heb. 9:1-14

John 5:1-18

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 54:4

But surely, God is my helper;
          the Lord is the upholder of my life.

 

Gen. 15:7-8

Then [the LORD] said to [Abram], “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”  But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 

 

Heb. 9:14

…how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

 

John 5:6

When Jesus saw [the invalid] lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”