The Wartburg Project

Daily Lectionary

March 1, 2025

February 28, 2025 March 2, 2025

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.

Job 33:1-18

331But now, Job, listen to my speech.
Pay close attention to all my words.
2Listen, because I have opened my mouth.
See how my tongue shapes words in my mouth.
3My speech will reveal my upright heart.
My lips express my knowledge plainly.[]
4The spirit[] of God made me.
The breath of the Almighty gave me life.
5Refute me if you are able.
Lay out your case before me! Take your stand!
6Look, my mouth belongs to God, just as your mouth does.
Like you I was snipped off from a lump of clay.
7Look, you should not be terrified by how awesome I am.
Pressure from me should not intimidate you.
8However, you said this in my hearing,
and I did hear the sound of these words:
9“I am pure, without any sinful rebellion.
I am clean. I have no guilt.
10But look how God finds pretexts to oppose me.
He treats me like his enemy.
11He has put my feet in stocks.
He patrols all my paths.”
12Job, listen to this!
You are not right.
I must refute you!
Certainly, God is greater than a man.
13Why do you bring charges against him,
just because he does not answer all of a man's questions?
14God does speak, sometimes one way, sometimes another,
but people do not pay attention to it.
15In a dream, in a vision in the night,
when people are falling into a deep sleep,
while they slumber on their beds,
16he whispers a revelation into people's ears,
and he confirms his warnings to them,
17in order to turn a man from his course of action
and to suppress a person's pride.
18He spares his life from the pit.
He spares his life from crossing the stream of death.[]

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.