GPS for the week of June 8th, 2025
“Hope Does Not Disappoint Us”
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“O Lord, open my eyes that I may see the needs of others; open
my ears that I may hear their cries; open my heart so that they
need not be without succor; let me not be afraid to defend the
weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the
poor because of the anger of the rich. Show me where love and
hope and faith are needed, and use me to bring them to those
places. And so open my eyes and my ears that I may this coming
day be able to do some work of peace for thee. Amen.” (A prayer
by Alan Paton, South Africa, 20th century. United Methodist
Hymnal #456.)
Monday 6.9 “My cry is to all that live.”
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
“Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her
voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she
takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the
entrance of the portals she cries out: ‘To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all that live.’” We must hear the call of God’s
wisdom and understanding wherever we are.
Tuesday 6.10 “The Lord created me at the beginning of his
work.’”
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
“‘The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his
acts of long ago. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the
beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought
forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before
the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought
forth-when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world’s
first bits of soil.’” We must take time to be silent before our
powerful and wonderful Creator.
Wednesday 6.11 “Rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting
in the human race.”
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
“‘When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a
circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned
to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his
command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then
I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and
delighting in the human race.’” Our Lord Jesus has always
delighted in us and in every human on our earth.
Thursday 6.12 “What are human beings that you are mindful
of them?”
Psalm 8
“O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of
babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your
foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your
heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you
have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of
them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a
little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you
have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also
the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our
Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” We join
God in caring for all those around us. We are all his beloved
Creation.
Friday 6.13 “We have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ.”
Romans 5:1-5
“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have
obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in
our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we
also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance, and endurance produces character, and character
produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s
love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that
has been given to us.” Our hearts are to be filled with God’s love.
Saturday 6.14 “When the Spirit of truth comes.”
John 16:12-15
“‘I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them
now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the
truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he
hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He
will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to
you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he
will take what is mine and declare it to you.’” Let us open our
hearts to be guided by the Spirit of truth as we come to know our
Lord.