Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - Ash Wednesday
Wednesday,
March 6, 2019 - Ash Wednesday
Joel
2:12–19
12"Even
now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with
fasting and weeping and mourning." 13Rend your heart and not
your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and
compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending
calamity. 14Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a
blessing-- grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God. 15Blow
the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. 16Gather
the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the
children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and
the bride her chamber. 17Let the priests, who minister before the
LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, "Spare
your people, O LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword
among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'
" 18Then the LORD will be jealous for his land and take pity on
his people.
19The LORD
will reply to them: "I am sending you grain, new wine and oil, enough to
satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the
nations.
Psalm
51
1For the
director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after
David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according
to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my
transgressions. 2Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my
sin. 3For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4Against
you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you
are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. 5Surely
I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6Surely
you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 7Cleanse
me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8Let
me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 9Hide
your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. 10Create in me
a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11Do
not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12Restore
to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. 13Then
I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. 14Save
me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of
your righteousness. 15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will
declare your praise. 16You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would
bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 17The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you
will not despise. 18In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build
up the walls of Jerusalem. 19Then there will be righteous
sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to delight you; then bulls will be offered on
your altar.
2
Corinthians 5:20-21
20We are
therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through
us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
2
Corinthians 6:1-10
1As God's
fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. 2For
he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation
I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day
of salvation.
3We put no
stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in
great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5in
beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6in
purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere
love; 7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of
righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 8through glory and
dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; 9known,
yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich;
having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
Matthew
6:1–6
1"Be
careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them.
If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2"So
when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites
do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the
truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give
to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so
that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in
secret, will reward you.
5"And
when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in
the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the
truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray,
go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then
your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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