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The Daily Bible Readings for Saturday, October 15, 2022

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The Daily Bible Readings
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Psalm 119:97-104; Jeremiah 31:15-26; Mark 10:46-52
(Revised Common Lectionary Year C)
(Semi-continuous Reading Plan)

(Your words sweeter than honey)
97  Oh, how I love your law!
      It is my meditation all day long.
98  Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,
      for it is always with me.
99  I have more understanding than all my teachers,
      for your decrees are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the aged,
      for I keep your precepts.
101 I hold back my feet from every evil way,
      in order to keep your word.
102 I do not turn away from your ordinances,
      for you have taught me.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste,
      sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through your precepts I get understanding;
      therefore I hate every false way.


(Hope for Israel’s future)
15 Thus says the Lord:
   A voice is heard in Ramah,
     lamentation and bitter weeping.
   Rachel is weeping for her children;
     she refuses to be comforted for her children,
     because they are no more.
16 Thus says the Lord:
   Keep your voice from weeping,
     and your eyes from tears;
   for there is a reward for your work,
        says the Lord:
     they shall come back from the land of the enemy;
17 there is hope for your future,
        says the Lord:
     your children shall come back to their own country.

18 Indeed I heard Ephraim pleading:
   “You disciplined me, and I took the discipline;
     I was like a calf untrained.
   Bring me back, let me come back,
     for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after I had turned away I repented;
     and after I was discovered, I struck my thigh;
   I was ashamed, and I was dismayed
     because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
     Is he the child I delight in?
   As often as I speak against him,
     I still remember him.
   Therefore I am deeply moved for him;
     I will surely have mercy on him,
        says the Lord.

21 Set up road markers for yourself,
     make yourself signposts;
   consider well the highway,
     the road by which you went.
   Return, O virgin Israel,
     return to these your cities.
22 How long will you waver,
     O faithless daughter?
   For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
     a woman encompasses a man.

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its towns when I restore their fortunes:

   “The Lord bless you, O abode of righteousness,
     O holy hill!”

24 And Judah and all its towns shall live there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.

25 I will satisfy the weary,
     and all who are faint I will replenish.

26 Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.


(A man who would not be silenced)
The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus
10:46 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48 Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49 Jesus stood still and said, “Call him here.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” 50 So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” 52 Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.

Optional parts of the readings are set off in [square brackets.]

The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.

The Daily Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. We are currently in Year C. Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent in 2022, we will be in Year A. The year which ended at Advent 2021 was Year B. These readings complement the Sunday and festival readings: Thursday through Saturday readings help prepare the reader for the Sunday ahead; Monday through Wednesday readings help the reader reflect and digest on what they heard in worship. Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings, copyright © 2005 Consultation on Common Texts. www.commontexts.org
The Daily Lectionary
Psalm 119:97-104; Jeremiah 31:15-26; Mark 10:46-52

The Morning Prayer for Saturday, October 15, 2022

 


The Morning Prayer
Saturday, October 15, 2022


On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Dear Father in heaven, we come into your presence as imperfect, sinful children, who do many foolish things and who are involved in much that is evil and corrupt. We come to you, Father, knowing that your fatherly love is with us through all eternity. Be gracious to us and free us from all the harm and injury we are bound to suffer in this earthly life. May the grace your kingdom brings on earth finally blot out the sins of all people, so that as your children they may rejoice because you have helped them. May your name be praised among all people. Amen.

Verse of the Day for Saturday, October 15, 2022

 


Verse of the Day
Saturday, October 15, 2022


2 Samuel 7:22
How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
God's goodness is to David a proof of his greatness, and he sees it displayed, not only in his dealings with himself, but also in the past history of the Jewish nation. There is in this a depth of evangelic piety. An unconverted heart would see the greatness of God in the majesty of creation, or in severe dealings with the impenitent. David saw it in acts of mercy and kindness. We look upon Elijah as the very type of sternness, yet he too recognized the presence of God in "the still small voice" of gentleness and love (1 Kings 19:13).

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