Verse for the week: God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. Acts 2.36
Prayer for the week: “Almighty, everlasting God, you have given us the promise of your divine life. Bestow upon us your Holy Spirit, that, quickened by your word, we may lay hold on eternal life by strong faith in your Son, and in him be saved; through the same Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen. (K.B. Ritter, Gebete fur das Jahr der Kirche, 2nd ed. (Kassel: Johannes Stauda-Verllag, 1948), p.170)
Bible reading for the day: Psalm 130 (note: The whole psalm is a confession of waiting, waiting for the Lord’s plentiful redemption. In Christ, all our waiting is finally over.)
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in
the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast
love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
Hymn: follow this link to a beloved classic hymn which gives further voice to today’s conversation with the Lord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYAh4oHP9dI “Lost in the night do the people yet languish, longing for morning the darkness to vanquish, plaintively heaving a sigh full of anguish. Will not day come soon, will not day come soon?”
“I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord.”
What does this mean? I believe that Jesus Christ — true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary — is my Lord. He has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, and has freed me from sin, death, and the power of the devil, not with silver and gold, but with his holy and precious blood and his innocent suffering and death. He has done all this in order that I might be his own, live under him in his kingdom, and serve him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, even as he is risen from the dead and lives and reigns for all eternity. This is most certainly true! (from “The Small Catechism” by Martin Luther ©Reclaim Resources, Sola Publishing, 2011)
T: thanksgiving
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