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Daily Reading

Today's City reading:

Week 1, Day 2

Genesis 11:1-9

At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so happened that, as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down. They said to one another, ‘Come, let’s make bricks and fire them well.’ They used brick for stone and tar for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let’s make ourselves famous so we won’t be scattered here and there across the Earth.’ GOD came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built. GOD took one look and said, ‘One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they’ll come up with next – they’ll stop at nothing! Come, we’ll go down and garble their speech so they won’t understand each other.’ Then GOD scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city. That’s how it came to be called Babel, because there GOD turned their language into ‘babble’. From there GOD scattered them all over the world.

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Week 4, Day 1

+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.

 

Silence

 

Readings

 

Silence

 

Commitment

 

  • We are committed to following God on the margins and in the gaps, expecting to discover God at work among powerless people and in places of weakness.

 

During the past month, where have you experienced powerlessness and weakness, either in yourself or others?

Where was God in it?

What did you learn of the kingdom through it?

Did it leave you with a sense of pain?

Of hope?

Of a decision to be made?

Gently offer it to God in prayer

 

Lord of the universe,

Lord of the smallest particle of dust,

we meet you in the broken and the despairing

we know you in the unlikely and the unimagined.

We live alongside the bent and bruised

and we see you there

We worship with the damaged and deranged

and we see you there

We work with the oppressed and yearning

and we see you there

and we meet our own fragmentation there too.

 

In encountering powerlessness

we see Jesus;

In our weakness

we meet Jesus;

In living in the gaps

we follow Jesus;

who is our power,

who is our strength,

who is our Lord,

and who leads us on.

 

You are working to make all things new,

to help us to embody that hope,

to express that vision,

and to work for its coming.

 

Free prayer

 

The Lord's Prayer

 

Lord, in your mercy

Let your kingdom come!

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