Sunday 2 March 2014

14But Zion said, “The Lord 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!

2My soul rests in God alone.My salvation is from him.3He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress.I will never be greatly shaken.

6My soul, wait in silence for God alone,for my expectation is from him.7He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.I will not be shaken.

8My salvation and my honor is with God.The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.9Trust in him at all times, you people.Pour out your heart before him.God is a refuge for us.

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

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.25Therefore 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?26See 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 to his lifespan?28Why are you anxious about clothing?Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.They don’t toil, neither do they spin,29yet I tell youthat even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.30But 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?’32For the Gentiles seek after all these things;for your heavenly Father knowsthat you need all these things.33But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness;and all these things will be given to you as well.34Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow,for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.Each day’s own evil is sufficient.