🐮 Lent 5

Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8. 

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Isaiah chapter 43 verses 16 to 21. Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army, and warrior. They lie down. They cannot rise. They're extinguished, quenched like a wick. Do not remember the former things or consider the things of old, I'm about to do a new thing now. It springs forth. Do you not perceive it? I'll make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches. For I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert to give drink to my chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself, so that they might declare my praise. Psalm 126, when the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter in our tongue with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations. The Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us, and we rejoiced restore our fortunes. Oh Lord, like the watercourse in the Negev, may those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing shall come home with shouts of joy carrying their sheaves. Philippians chapter three, four through 14. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more. Circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews. As to the law, a Pharisee as to zeal, a persecutor of the church as to righteousness under the law, blameless yet whatever gains I had. These I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard regard everything as lost because the surpassing not value of knowing Christ. Joshua, my Lord, for his sake, I have suffered the loss of all things and I regard them as rubbish in order that I may gain again Christ and be found in him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death. If somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead, not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ was laid, has laid hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I don't consider. I do not consider that I have laid hold of of it, but one thing I have laid hold of forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. I press onward toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ. Joshua I, the Gospel of John chapter 12 verses one through eight. Six days before the Passover, Joshua came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There. They gave a dinner for him, Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure Ard, anointed Joshua's feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with a fragrance of the perfume, but Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was about to betray him, said, why is this perfume not sold for 300 denari and the money given to the poor. He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because of, because he was a thief. He kept the common person used to steal what was put into it. Joshua said, leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You'll always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.