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WEEKLY
SCRIPTURE May
26, 2013 INTRODUCTION "O Lord our Lord, how majestic is your
name in all the earth!" Today we celebrate the name of God: holy blessed
Trinity. There is no other day quite like this one in the church’s year.
There is no other god like ours. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! First
Reading:
Proverbs 8:1–4, 22–31 In the Bible, wisdom has many faces. It is portrayed in terms
sometimes human and sometimes divine. Often, it is personified as feminine.
In this passage, Woman Wisdom is depicted not only as the first creation of
God but also as God's helper, rejoicing in God's creation, especially in
human beings. Does
not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights,
beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in
front of the town at the entrance of the portals she cries out: "To
you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live. The LORD created me at
the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. Ages ago I was
set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no
depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth
when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first bits of soil. When
he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of
the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the
fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the
waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations
of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily
his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the human race.” Psalm: Psalm 8 1O LORD our Lord, how
majestic is your name in all the earth!— 2you whose glory is chanted above the heavens out
of the mouths of infants and children; you
have set up a fortress against your enemies, to
silence the foe and avenger. 3When I consider your heavens, the work of
your fingers, the
moon and the stars you have set in their courses, 4what are mere mortals that
you should be mindful of them, human
beings that you should care for them? 5Yet you have made them little less than
divine; with
glory and honor you crown them. 6You have made them rule over the works of
your hands; you
have put all things under their feet: 7all flocks and cattle, even
the wild beasts of the field, 8the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and
whatever passes along the paths of the sea. 9O LORD our Lord, how majestic
is your name in all the earth! Second
Reading: Romans
5:1–5 Paul
describes the life of faith with reference to God, Jesus, and the Holy
Spirit. Even now, we have peace with God through Jesus, and our hope for the
future is grounded in the love of God that we experience through Christ's
Holy Spirit. Therefore, since we are
justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we
stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5and hope does not disappoint us, because
God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has
been given to us. Gospel: John 16:12–15 Jesus' ongoing presence with the
disciples will be borne by the coming Spirit, who will guide them and
communicate to them Jesus' will and glory. 12I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear
them now. 13When the Spirit of truth comes, he will
guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will
speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to
come. 14He will glorify me, because he will take
what is mine and declare it to you. 15All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that
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