The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

June 3, 2024

June 2, 2024 June 4, 2024

These daily readings from the EHV follow the one-year daily lectionary provided in Christian Worship: Hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book, and the Treasury of Daily Prayer. In this lectionary, two readings of 15-25 verses each are provided for each day. Under this plan, nearly all of the New Testament and approximately one-third of the Old Testament are read each year. These readings fit well within the daily offices of Matins, Vespers, or Compline as daily family devotions.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-10

111Cast your bread on the surface of the water. Then, after many days you will find it again.[]
2Put part of your investment into seven or even into eight ventures, for you do not know what disaster might come upon the land.
3If the clouds are full, they pour out rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there it will lie.
4Whoever keeps watching the wind will never sow, and anyone who keeps looking at the clouds will never reap.
5Just as you do not know the path of the wind,[] or how bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.
6In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hand rest, for you do not know which effort will succeed, this one or that, or if both of them will be equally good.
7Light is sweet, and it is good for eyes to see the sun.
8Yes, even if a man lives many years, in all of them let him find joy, but let him keep in mind the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come is vapor.
Advice to the Young
9Young man, be happy while you are a child, and let your heart make you glad during the days of your youth. Walk down the roads on which your heart leads you and on the way your eyes see, but know that for all these, God will bring you into judgment.
10Put frustration out of your mind, and ignore the troubles of your body, because youth and the dawn of life are vapor.[]

John 10:22-42

“I and the Father Are One”
22Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Colonnade.
24So the Jews gathered around Jesus, asking, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25Jesus answered them, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I am doing in my Father's name testify about me. 26But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep, as I said to you.[] 27My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30I and the Father are one.”
31Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”
33“We are not going to stone you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because although you are a man, you make yourself out to be God.”
34Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said you are gods’?[] 35If he called those people ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, 36what about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world? Do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God's Son’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. 38But if I am doing them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works so that you will know and understand[] that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”
39So they tried to arrest him again, but he eluded their grasp. 40He went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he stayed there.
41Many came to him and were saying, “John never did a miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.