Take time to read scripture or lyrics to a hymn that provide
strength during a time of cleansing and purification.
Think and pray about
why the words are particularly powerful for you. Perhaps the power is connected to a
particular time and place. Perhaps they
are words you heard that shook something negative out of you. Maybe they are words you prayed or spoke as
you served as one of God’s truth speakers.
Scripture:
Psalm 51 Create in me a clean heart
Psalm 102 Do not hide your face from me
Joel 2:12-13 Return to the Lord, your God
Romans 12: 1-5 Present your body as living sacrifices
2 Corinthians 12:7b-10
A thorn in the flesh
1 John 1:5-2:2 If we confess our sin, God is faithful and
just
Song:
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ELW #803
Lord Jesus, Think on Me ELW #599
Out of the Depths I Cry to You ELW #600
Built on a Rock ELW #652
Where True Charity and Love Abide ELW 653
All of the Holy Week hymns really get me as they include me in the crime of Jesus' death. Ah Holy Jesus makes me weep. . . this one is very beautiful too and puts me in deep touch with Christ's amazing sacrifice of love:
ReplyDeleteAlas! and did my Savior bleed,
1. and did my Sovereign die!
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I?
2. Was it for crimes that I have done,
he groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
3. Well might the sun in darkness hide,
and shut its glories in,
when God, the mighty maker, died
for his own creature's sin.
4. Thus might I hide my blushing face
while his dear cross appears;
dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
and melt mine eyes to tears.
5. But drops of tears can ne'er repay
the debt of love I owe.
Here, Lord, I give myself away;
'tis all that I can do.