The Daily Lectionary for TUESDAY, June 11, 2019

The Daily Lectionary

TUESDAY, June 11, 2019

(Revised Common Lectionary Year C)

Psalm 48

The Glory and Strength of Zion
A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites.
1  Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
     in the city of our God.
   His holy mountain, 2 beautiful in elevation,
     is the joy of all the earth,
   Mount Zion, in the far north,
     the city of the great King.
3  Within its citadels God
     has shown himself a sure defense.

4  Then the kings assembled,
     they came on together.
5  As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
     they were in panic, they took to flight;
6  trembling took hold of them there,
     pains as of a woman in labor,
7  as when an east wind shatters
     the ships of Tarshish.
8  As we have heard, so have we seen
     in the city of the Lord of hosts,
   in the city of our God,
     which God establishes forever.   Selah

9  We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
     in the midst of your temple.
10 Your name, O God, like your praise,
     reaches to the ends of the earth.
   Your right hand is filled with victory.
11   Let Mount Zion be glad,
   let the towns of Judah rejoice
     because of your judgments.

12 Walk about Zion, go all around it,
     count its towers,
13 consider well its ramparts;
     go through its citadels,
   that you may tell the next generation
14   that this is God,
   our God forever and ever.
     He will be our guide forever.

Ezekiel 11:14-25

God Will Restore Israel
11:14 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 15 Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “They have gone far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.” 16 Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far away among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they have gone. 17 Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 When they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. 19 I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, 20 so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 21 But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord God.

22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. 23 And the glory of the Lord ascended from the middle of the city, and stopped on the mountain east of the city. 24 The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen left me. 25 And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.

1 Corinthians 2:12-16

2:12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 13 And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.

14 Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.

16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord
     so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

Optional parts of the readings are set off in [square brackets.]

The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.

The Daily Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. We are currently in Year C. Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent in 2019, we will be in Year A. The year which ended at Advent 2018 was Year B. These readings complement the Sunday and festival readings: Thursday through Saturday readings help prepare the reader for the Sunday ahead; Monday through Wednesday readings help the reader reflect and digest on what they heard in worship. Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings, copyright © 2005 Consultation on Common Texts. www.commontexts.org
We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.