Lent Daybook, 19: come, buy and eat!

My Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Join me, won't you? (see previous Lent daybook 2016 posts here)

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look

An aid worker distributes bread and supplies to migrants at a transition camp September 7, 2015 in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia.  source

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read

Isaiah 55:1-9

Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 

Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

all readings for the day:

 Isaiah 55:1-9 • 

Psalm 63:1-8 • 

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 • 

Luke 13:1-9

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pray

Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.(source)

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listen

 

All Who Are Thirsty by Vineyard Music

( I invite you to listen with me to my ever-evolving Lent playlist & Lent Spirituals playlist)

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do

As you worship in your local congregation today, be especially thoughtful about the gift of the bread and wine given to us by the very real and present Christ.  Thank Him for feeding you body, mind and spirit.

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(see all Lent daybook posts from 2015 here)