Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy. –Exodus 20:8 (NRSVCE)
God’s Eternity and Human Frailty
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back you mortals.”
For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the
night.
You sweep them away; They are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning. In the
morning it flourishes and is renewed, in the evening it fades and withers.
For we are consumed by Your anger. By Your wrath we are overwhelmed.
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
For all our days pass away under Your wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.
The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong, even then their span is
only toil and trouble. they are soon gone and we fly away.
Who considers the power of Your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.
Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on Your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with Your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days.
Make us glad as many days as You have afflicted us and as many years as we have seen evil.
Let Your work be manifest to Your servants and Your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord Our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands
— O prosper the work of our hands! –Psalm 90:1-17
The New Life In Christ
If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at
the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are earth, for
you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is
revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: Fornication, Impurity, Passion, Evil Desire
and Greed (which is idolatry). On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are
disobedient. These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life but now
you must get rid of all such things — Anger, Wrath, Malice, Slander and Abusive Language
from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with
its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in
knowledge according to the image of its Creator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and
Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free but Christ is all and
in all!
As God’s chosen ones, Holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with Compassion, Kindness,
Humility, Meekness and Patience. Bear with one another and if anyone has a complaint against
another, forgive each other; Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above
all, clothe yourselves with love, which bind everything together in perfect harmony and let the
peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body and be
thankful.
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom and
with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to God and whatever you
do, in word or deed, do everything in the Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the
Father through Him.
Rules For Christian Households
Wives be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, lobe your wives and
never treat them harshly.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.
Fathers do not provoke your children or they may lose heart. Slaves obey your earthly masters
in everything, not only while being watched and in order to please them but wholeheartedly,
fearing the Lord. Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for
your masters, since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your
reward; You serve the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong
has been done and there is no partiality. –Colossians 3:1-25
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