Yours, Whether We Live or Die--Feb. 12, 2022

[From Feb. 15, 2020 archive]

 

God, creatures wait for you to give them their food,

and sheep wait for shepherds to give them water, 

but we need not wait till we die to be with you,

for whether we live, or whether we die, 

we are yours.  Help us, day by day, 

to keep the word of Christ and

to be with you always.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 104; 149; 138; 98

Gen. 29:1-20

Rom. 14:1-23

John 8:47-59

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 104:27-28

[All creatures] look to you
          to give them their food in due season;
when you give to them, they gather it up;
          when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

 

Gen. 29:8

But [the shepherds] said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

 

Rom. 14:8

If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

 

John 8:51

“…Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.”  [Jesus, to those who questioned him]