March 2, 2014

Reading

Jesaja 49: 14-15

49:14 And Zion said: “The Lord has abandoned me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.

Second Reading

Second Letter to the Corinthians 4: 1-5

4:1 Tāpēc, kopš mums ir šī ministrija, un tik daudz, cik mēs esam ieguvuši žēlastību sev, mēs neesam neadekvāti.

4:2 Jo mēs atsakāmies no negodīgām un slēptām darbībām, nestaigājot ar viltību, ne arī viltojot Dieva Vārdu. Tā vietā, ar patiesības izpausmi, mēs sevi nododam katra cilvēka sirdsapziņai Dieva priekšā.

4:3 Bet, ja mūsu Evaņģēlijs ir kaut kādā veidā apslēpts, tas ir paslēpts tiem, kas iet bojā.

4:4 Kas attiecas uz viņiem, šī laikmeta dievs ir apžilbinājis neticīgo prātus, lai Kristus godības evaņģēlija gaisma, kurš ir Dieva tēls, tajos nespīdētu.

4:5 Jo mēs nesludinām par sevi, bet par Jēzu Kristu, mūsu Kungu. Mēs esam tikai jūsu kalpi caur Jēzu.

Gospel

Metjū 6: 24-34

The Holy Gospel According to Matthew 6: 24-34

6:24	No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
6:25	And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
6:26	Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?
6:27	And which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature?
6:28	And as for clothing, why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither work nor weave.
6:29	Bet es tev saku, that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed like one of these.
6:30	So if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and cast into the oven tomorrow, how much more will he care for you, O little in faith?
6:31	Tāpēc, do not choose to be anxious, sakot: ‘What shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and with what shall we be clothed?’
6:32	For the Gentiles seek all these things. Yet your Father knows that you need all these things.
6:33	Tāpēc, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.
6:34	Tāpēc, do not be anxious about tomorrow; for the future day will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its evil.”