14 March 2015
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Saturday 14
March 2015
Morning
Prayer
Psalm 34
This is a psalm of thanksgiving and praise and one
that teaches people to love and fear the Lord, to avoid evil and to seek peace.
The psalmist teaches, “the Lord redeems the life of his servants” (v.22).
Genesis 50: 7 – 26
Joseph his brothers and a great company of Egyptians
Take Jacob’s body back to Canaan. They mourn 7 days and then bury him as
requested. On return to Egypt the brothers come to Joseph and confess and ask
forgiveness. He weeps, and then responds that he is not God and that all they
did was part of God’s plan. He promises to care for them and their families.
Before he dies he asks that when God comes to call them back, that they are to
carry his bones back with them.
Luke 17: 20 – 37
Jesus talks about the Kingdom. First it is here and we
can read the signs of Jesus’s time – the miracles, the healing. We can also act
to bring the Kingdom by doing things about poverty, suffering and wars now,
since the Kingdom is with us through Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection. And
the final Kingdom of God’s glory is still to come, in God’s time and God’s
place.
Collect for
Morning Prayer
The Hill approaching Port Augusta SA 2014 L Osburn |
Saturday 14
March 2015
Evening
Prayer
Psalm 119: 17 – 40
In this section of the psalm is the plea to be taught
and to be shown how to live out the commandments daily: how to read and
understand scripture. There is a plea for protection against ridicule or harm
by others because of our desire to be with and know God.
Jeremiah 35
Jeremiah is instructed to invite the Rechabites to the
temple and offer them wine. The Rechabites refuse saying their ancestor
Jonadab, forbade them to drink wine, or farm but to live in tents. They have
obeyed.
God then instructs Jeremiah to use the Rechabites as
an example of a people who listen. The Rechabites are promised a future. The rest
if the people of Judah are not listening nor answering when called.
Hebrews 11: 29 – 40
The writer here talks of more recent people who were
righteous, journeyed and/ or suffered for their faith. This is the culmination
of the great list of faithful beginning at Abel. But, the writer pauses and
says, “Yet all these... did not receive what was promised...” What was promised
was salvation. The ancients are not perfect, we are not perfect but we all need
each other as part of the great cord of salvation made possible by Christ. We
are part of that chain of salvation that links us, through all the faithful,
back to Abel.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
Sue's Bridge The lives of the faithful are like the support of our bridge of faith Black River WA 2014 L Osburn |
Great and patient Lord you have given us the records of your
faithful and obedient people through the ages. Their stories encourage us to
continue our faith and desire to know you better. Encourage us to reach for you
and for the salvation you made possible through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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