Lectio Concordia

The Two Ways – Tuesday

preparing for The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

Series: Lectio Concordia

February 11, 2025 By Rev. Mark Ryman

• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index

• Collect: You have set before us the ways of life and good, Father, of death and evil. Help us to choose the good that we may know the everlasting joy of life in your Son. Amen.

• Psalm 34:8–14

• Genesis 3:1-24

• There is no help or comfort except to run to the Lord by taking hold of his prayer, and speaking to God from the heart: “Dear Father, you have told me pray; let me not fail because of temptations.” Then you will see that the temptation must desist, and finally acknowledge themselves conquered. But if you try to help yourself by your own thoughts and counsel, you will only make the matter worse and give the devil more space. For if his serpent’s head finds an opening into which he can slip, the whole body will follow without check. Yet prayer can prevent him and drive him back. [The Large Catechism, The Sixth Petition]

• Take My Life, and Let It Be Tune

Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.

Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.

Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.

Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee.

Lyrics: Frances Ridley Havergal

• Benediction: May you delight in God’s Word, loving both him and his ways, so that you are not among the wicked, those who reject him and his law. Amen.

• For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. (Psalm 30:5)

• Memory Verse Aid: FHAIBFAM, AHFIFAL. WMTFTN, BJCWTM. (P305)