And Your Faithfulness by Night--May 28, 2022

[From May 15, 2010 archive, 

adapted from my journal of May 11, 2002]

 

O Most High,

 

Make me free from jealousy like Moses;

let me be trusting like the leper.

 

Grant that I may accept the peace that you proclaim

and that in the Spirit I may have access to the Father.

 

May I declare your steadfast love in the morning

and your faithfulness by night;

 

for it is good to give you thanks

and to sing praises to your name.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114

Num. 11:16-17, 24-29

Eph. 2:11-22

Matt. 7:28-8:4

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 92:1-2

It is good to give thanks to the LORD,

            to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

to declare your steadfast love in the morning,

            and your faithfulness by night…

 

Num. 11:29

But Moses said to [Joshua], “Are you jealous for my sake?  Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!”

 

Eph. 2:17-18

So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.

 

Matt. 8:2

…and there was a leper who came to [Jesus] and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.”