The Daily Lectionary for Tuesday, March 14, 2023

 

The Daily Lectionary
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Psalm 81; Genesis 29:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4
(Revised Common Lectionary Year A)

A Psalm and A Prayer
Responsive Readings from the Psalms and Prayers
for Public Worship and Private Devotions
Psalm 81
We drink from the rock
Exultate Deo

1 Sing with joy to God our strength *
  and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.

2 Raise a song and sound the timbrel, *
  the merry harp, and the lyre.

3 Blow the ramís-horn at the new moon, *
  and at the full moon, the day of our feast.

4 For this is a statute for Israel, *
  a law of the God of Jacob.

5 He laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph, *
  when he came out of the land of Egypt.

6 I heard an unfamiliar voice saying, *
  “I eased his shoulder from the burden;
      his hands were set free from bearing the load.”

7 You called on me in trouble, and I saved you; *
  I answered you from the secret place of thunder
      and tested you at the waters of Meribah.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: *
  O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9 There shall be no strange god among you; *
  you shall not worship a foreign god.

10 I am the LORD your God,
       who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said, *
  “Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”

11 And yet my people did not hear my voice, *
   and Israel would not obey me.

12 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts, *
   to follow their own devices.

13 Oh, that my people would listen to me! *
   that Israel would walk in my ways!

14 I should soon subdue their enemies *
   and turn my hand against their foes.

15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, *
   and their punishment would last for ever.

16 But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat *
   and satisfy him with honey from the rock.

O God, we gather in Your presence to praise Your Holy Name, with songs on our lips and love in our hearts. We gather here, because we find joy and love, peace and understanding, among Your people. We seek to serve You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Deliver us from slavery to all sins. Save us from those who would deceive us. Teach us the way that we should go each day. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit that we might have the comfort of Your presence within us day and night. And now we pray together in Jesus’ Name:

“Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.”

Genesis 29:1-14
Rachel at the well

29:1 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. 2 There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. 3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

4 Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?”

“We’re from Harran,” they replied.

5 He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?”

“Yes, we know him,” they answered.

6 Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?”

“Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

7 “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

8 “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd. 10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. 12 He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

13 As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. 14 Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.”
Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel

After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month.

1 Corinthians 10:1-4
Drinking from Christ the spiritual rock

10:1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

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

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The Daily Lectionary is a three year cyclical lectionary. We are currently in Year A. Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent in 2023, we will be in Year B. The year which ended at Advent 2022 was Year A. 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
The Daily Lectionary for Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Psalm 81; Genesis 29:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4