Monday 21 October 2030

1You were made alivewhen you were dead in transgressions and sins,2in which you once walked according to the course of this world,according to the prince of the power of the air,the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.3We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh,doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind,and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.4But God, being rich in mercy,for his great love with which he loved us,5even when we were dead through our trespasses,made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—6and raised us up with him,and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;8for by grace you have been saved through faith,and that not of yourselves;it is the gift of God,9not of works, that no one would boast.10For we are his workmanship,created in Christ Jesus for good works,which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

1Shout for joy to the Lord, all you lands!2Serve the Lord with gladness.Come before his presence with singing.

3Know that the Lord, he is God.It is he who has made us, and we are his.We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,and into his courts with praise.

4Give thanks to him, and bless his name.5For the Lord is good.His loving kindness endures forever,his faithfulness to all generations.

13One of the multitude said to him,“Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

14But he said to him,“Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”15He said to them, “Beware!Keep yourselves from covetousness,for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the thingswhich he possesses.”

16He spoke a parable to them,saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.17He reasoned within himself,saying, ‘What will I do,because I don’t have room to store my crops?’18He said, ‘This is what I will do.I will pull down my barns,build bigger ones,and there I will store all my grain and my goods.19I will tell my soul,“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years.Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

20“But God said to him,‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you.The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’21So is he who lays up treasure for himself,and is not rich toward God.”