For Wisdom and Insight--Feb. 24, 2022

[From Feb. 23, 2006 archive]

 

We make our assumptions 

about what you will do, 

or what you will not do;

usually we are wrong.

 

Remind us of the days of old,

and as we think about all your deeds,

teach us to meditate on the works of your hands.

 

God, give us wisdom and insight simply to know

that if we ask anything according to your will,

you will hear us.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116

Prov. 7:1-27

1 John 5:13-21

John 11:55-12:8

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 143:5

I remember the days of old,

            I think about all your deeds,

            I meditate on the works of your hands.

 

Prov. 7:4

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

            and call insight your intimate friend…

 

1 John 5:14

And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

John 11:56

[Many who had gone up from the country to Jerusalem for the Passover] were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think?  Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?”