Do You Come to Us, Jesus?--May 4, 2022

[From May 3, 2006 archive]

 

Do you come to us, Jesus?

Do you come to us, 

as you came to John?

 

All the fullness of God 

is pleased to dwell in you,

why should you come to us?

 

God came to Moses

in trumpet blast and thunder.

Your approach is soft and quiet,

but still you come to us?

 

Is it because in you we are reconciled,

reconciled to God and to all things—

even to the needy, who shall not be forgotten,

and to the poor, whose hope shall not perish?

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 99; 147:1-11; 9; 118

Exod. 19:16-25

Col. 1:15-23

Matt. 3:13-17

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 9:18

For the needy shall not always be forgotten,

            nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

 

Exod. 19:19

As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.

 

Col. 1:19-20

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.

 

Matt. 3:14

John [the Baptist] would have prevented [Jesus], saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”