Daily Office Readings for the Friday after Ash Wednesday: Year 2
Morning, Psalms 95 and 31; Evening, Psalm 35;
Ezekiel 18:1 to 4 and 25 to 32; Philippians 4:1 to 9; John 17:9 to 19:
“Come, let us sing to the Lord; let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.” (Psalm 95:1)
We Episcopalians use the first seven verses of Psalm 95 (The Venite) as an option for our Morning Prayer worship. It is a beautiful Psalm that reminds us of our loving relationship with God, our Creator.
As we approach the Seventh (Sabbath) Day of our week (Saturday), let us find time to just stop and ponder about our personal relationship with God. How is God calling you out for the benefit of your community, or any community? We have a Bible full of God’s callings: God called Abraham away from his father’s house; God called Jacob to go back and face his brother; God called Moses to go back to Egypt; and on and on. And now you may notice your own burning bush. Is God saying your name twice for you to recognize that you are standing on Holy Ground?
This brings me to verse seven of Psalm 95. “For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!”
Will you hearken to His voice?
Today we remember Frederick Douglass, Social Reformer (1895) and his information may be found at: Frederick Douglass
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done” (Genesis 2:1 and 2). So, for this evening and tomorrow day my friends, Shabbat Shalom.
What is Shabbat? Intro to the Jewish Sabbath – YouTube
As we listen to what the Spirit of God is saying to us, let us live to love and to serve, and to teach others to love and to serve, while pondering anew what the Almighty can do. John
Let us pray: For Guidance (BCP p. 832)
O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light riseth up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what thou wouldest have us to do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices, and that in thy light we may see light, and in thy straight path may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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