For use with Common, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Lectionaries
In most of these texts, persons who are trying to serve God are depicted as engaged in intense struggles with the world. Within the Jeremiah 15:15-21 and the Psalm 26 texts, the prophet and the psalmist speak boldly to the Lord, asking for additional support in their struggles. Within the New Testament texts, the emphasis is on offering one's life to God as a living sacrifice. As Jesus did, so also his followers are exhorted to do. We see similarities and we see differences, therefore, between the Old Testament texts and the New Testament texts for next Sunday.