Daily Readings for Sunday, 2 March 2014

Daily Readings for Sunday, 2 March 2014

Isaiah 49: 14 But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,

    and the Lord has forgotten me.”

15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,

    that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Yes, these may forget,

    yet I will not forget you!

Psalm 62: 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress—

    I will never be greatly shaken.

3 How long will you assault a man,

    would all of you throw him down,

    Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.

    I will not be shaken.

7 With God is my salvation and my honor.

    The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

8 Trust in him at all times, you people.

    Pour out your heart before him.

    God is a refuge for us.

Selah.

9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath,

    and men of high degree are a lie.

In the balances they will go up.

    They are together lighter than a breath

1 Corinthians 4: So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. 2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self. 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Matthew 6: 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. 25 Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

27 “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment[a] to his lifespan? 28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, 29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

31 “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Footnotes:

a. Matthew 6:27 literally, cubit

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