Into Your Hand, Faithful God--April 2, 2022

[Adapted from March 27, 2004 archive]

 

The disciples failed to cast out a demon.

We often fail in what we attempt, 

but we never know when being faithful, 

even to a routine duty, may lead us

beyond the wilderness

to your mountain.  

 

Help us humbly commit our spirit 

into your hand, faithful God. 

that we may live in love—

love that bears all things, 

believes all things, 

hopes all things, 

endures all things.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Exod. 2:23-3:15

1 Cor. 13:1-13

Mark 9:14-29

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 31:5

Into your hand I commit my spirit;
          you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

 

Exod. 3:1

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 

 

1 Cor. 13:7

[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

Mark 9:28

When [Jesus] had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”