Category Archives: Lord’s Day
>Sunday’s Psalm – Psalm 62-
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>The Lord’s Day – Thinking on the Shepherds-
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Advent is over, we have celebrated His coming, but we have pondered on how the story doesn’t end in the manger, it goes on, and that is what I want to do; that is exactly what I want to do. I do not want to stop in the manger; I want to walk through the Gospel; I need the Gospel in my life every day.
Today I am thinking on the shepherds; they heard the news, they went to the manger and then what? They went back to their sheep.
The Christmas tree and the lights will be put away soon… but the story, my love story with my Master will go on.
I have thinking on the last chapter of the book The Holiness of God, on those words that keep coming back to my heart… living in the sacred. Holy space and Holy time. Christ has come… He has come. Hear it, O my soul, the Lord has come to you! I walk in the sacred because He has come! I do not want to miss this. I want to live glorifying God in my body.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
1 Corinthians 6: 19-20
How is easily I forget that my body is temple of the Holy Spirit. How I easily I forget that I am standing on holy ground, on holy space, and holy time.
Calvin says that the shepherds, once they heard the news from the angels, once they saw the Messiah…
“Their earthly lot did not change, despite the fact that they had heard the angel’s word and had witnessed the birth of God’s Son. They went back to their flocks exactly as before; they continued to live as as poor men, guarding their herds. In terms of the flesh and of this passing world they gained nothing from the privilege which we read about here. For all that, they were full of joy. Theirs is a lead we should follow. For although the gospel might earn us neither wealth nor fame, and although it might not bring us gratification or amusement, nevertheless we should be glad that we are the objects of God’s favour. That is where true blessing and happiness lie, and where real rest is found”
Today is the Lord’s Day, today we enter into the weekly Sabbath, into rest. Let us find our rest in the Gospel. In the good news: “A Saviour is Born to us, who is Christ the Lord!” (Luke 2: 9-14)
May we enter today His Sabbath knowing that we are the objects of His favour.
>Sunday’s Hymn
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by Martin Luther, 1483-1546
1. “From heaven above to earth I come
To bear good news to every home;
Glad tidings of great joy I bring,
Whereof I now will say and sing:
Of Mary, chosen virgin mild;
This little child, of lowly birth,
Shall be the joy of all the earth.
Who in all need shall aid afford;
He will Himself your Savior be
From all your sins to set you free.
Prepared by God for all below,
That in His kingdom, bright and fair,
You may with us His glory share.
The swaddling-clothes and manger dark;
There ye shall find the Infant laid
By whom the heavens and earth were made.”
Go with the shepherds and draw near
To see the precious gift of God,
Who hath His own dear Son bestowed.
What is it in yon manger lies?
Who is this child, so young and fair?
The blessed Christ-child lieth there.
Through whom the sinful world is blest!
Thou com’st to share my misery;
What thanks shall I return to Thee?
How weak art Thou, how poor and small,
That Thou dost choose Thine infant bed
Where humble cattle lately fed!
Beset with gold and jewels rare,
It yet were far too poor to be
A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.
Thou hast but hay and straw so rough,
Whereon Thou, King, so rich and great,
As ’twere Thy heaven, art throned in state.
To make this truth quite plain to me,
That all the world’s wealth, honor, might,
Are naught and worthless in Thy sight.
Make Thee a bed, soft, undefiled,
Within my heart, that it may be
A quiet chamber kept for Thee.
My lips no more can silence keep;
I, too, must sing with joyful tongue
That sweetest ancient cradle-song:
Who unto us His Son hath given!
While angels sing with pious mirth
A glad new year to all the earth.
The Lutheran Hymnal
Hymn #85
Text: Luke 2: 1-18
Author: Martin Luther, 1535
Tune: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
Translated by: Catherine Winkworth, 1855, alt.
1st published in: “Geistliche Lieder” Leipzig, 1539
>The Family of God
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oday, I am thankful for the family of God. I am thankful for YOU, no matter where you are worshiping our Father today, we are one in Him, and this is too wonderful for me to comprehend.
J.C Ryle says in his book Practical Religion, about the family of God:
“Let us strive to live worthy of the family to which we belong. Let us labour to do nothing that may cause our Father’s house to be spoken against. Let us endeavour to make our Master’s name beautiful by our temper, conduct and conversations. Let us love as brethren, and abhor all quarrels. Let us behave as if the honour of “the family” depended on our behaviour.So living, by the grace of God, we shall make our calling and election sure, both to ourselves and others. So living, we may hope to have an abundant entrance, and to enter harbour in full sail, whenever we change earth for heaven. (2 Peter 1:2) So living, we shall recommend our Father’s family to others, and perhaps by God’s blessing incline them to say, ‘We shall go with you'”
May you enjoy this Lord’s day with the family of God!
Please, if you have few minutes, I really recommend you to read Persis blog entry today… what she says is VERY important!
>Sunday’s Prayer
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