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TODAY’S READINGS
Job 38:1-11
Psalm 107:1-3, 23-32
Ephesians 2:4-10
Mark 4:35-41

FIRST READING:  Job 38:1-11
¹Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: ²‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? ³Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. ⁴‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. ⁵ Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone ⁷when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? ⁸‘Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? ⁹when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, ¹¹and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped”?

RESPONSIVE READING:  Psalm 107:1-3, 23-32
¹ O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever.
² Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he redeemed from trouble
³ and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

²³ Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the mighty waters;
²⁴ they saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep.
²⁵ For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.
²⁶ They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths;their courage melted away in their calamity;
²⁷ they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits’ end.
²⁸ Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out from their distress;
²⁹ he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
³⁰ Then they were glad because they had quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.
³¹ Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.
³² Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

SECOND READING:  Ephesians 2:4-10
⁴But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us ⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ⁶and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,⁷so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— ⁹not the result of works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

GOSPEL:  Mark 4:35-41
³⁵On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ ³⁶And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. ³⁷A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. ³⁸But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ ³⁹He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. ⁴⁰He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’⁴¹And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’

(Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.  Used by permission.)