To Anchor Our Soul--Jan. 20, 2022

[From Jan. 23, 2020 archive]

 

How precious is your steadfast love, O God!

In the shadow of your wings, we take refuge.

We feast on the abundance of your house,

and you give us drink from the river

of your delights—a spring of 

water gushing up to

eternal life.

 

Somehow, though, we are never satisfied.

We want to make a name for ourselves, 

building a monument up to the sky.  

 

Instead, let yours be the glory, as we

anchor our soul in the sure hope

of your steadfast love, made

known to us in Christ.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27

Gen. 11:1-9

Heb. 6:13-20

John 4:1-15

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 36:7-8

How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
          All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

They feast on the abundance of your house,
          and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

 

Gen. 11:4a

Then [the people] said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves…”

 

Heb. 6:19

We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain…

 

John 4:14

Jesus said to [the Samaritan woman], “… but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.  The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”