We often reprint prior devotions that now reflect on the coming lectionary texts. This is a reprint from a devotion originally published on January 14, 2014.
Reading Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord. How precious is your steadfast love, O God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. O continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your salvation to the upright of heart! (Psalm 36: 5-10) Reflection Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. --Psalm 36: 5 I write this while looking up into a bright, blue sky and looking out to where it meets the shimmering green ocean. There are puffy white clouds above and more sky and clouds beyond that long curve of the horizon. Imagine! God's love and faithfulness go that far. I will come back in the evening and see stars unimaginable miles away in a darkness so deep that goes even further. The horizon will be lost in the distance. I will remember God's love and faithfulness go beyond what we can see! As I am seeing it from this beach chair, God's love and faithfulness is simply everywhere. Look up. Look out. It's there. --Ruth Gates Prayer Endlessly loving and faithful God, thank you for the heavens and the clouds we can see and beyond. May we look up and know the extent of your love and faithfulness. Amen. Our devotions are based on this Sunday’s Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). The RCL is a three-year cycle of readings telling the story of our Christian faith and corresponding to the season church calendar. On any given Sunday, we are hearing and praying and examining the same Scripture with millions of Christians around the world. In our current Year C, the Old Testament readings progress through the Prophets and have the theme of the day that it is connected to the Gospel reading. The Psalm, a song the congregation sings in response to the Old Testament reading, most often corresponds to the theme of the Hebrew Lessons and/or that of the Gospel Lesson. The lesson from the Epistles or from Acts typifies the church’s focus on the meaning of Christ for today. The Gospel lesson is connected to the season of the Church Year. This year, our gospel readings are from Luke, who writes that Jesus is the universal Savior and the perfect Son of Man. In the current season of Epiphany, Christ is revealed, the disciples are called, and we see the early ministry of Jesus.
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