What Can Separate Us from Such Love?--March 31, 2017

Lord Jesus Christ, you are the Good Shepherd.

When we cry to you, you hear our voice.

You do not hide your face from us;

you do not despise, do not abhor

the affliction of the afflicted--

Lord, you know the pain.

Help us abide in you

as you abide in us.

What can separate us

from love such as yours?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130

Jer. 23:1-8

Rom. 8:28-39

John 6:52-59

Selected Verses

Ps. 22:24

For [the LORD] did not despise or abhor
          the affliction of the afflicted; 

he did not hide his face from me,
          but heard when I cried to him.

Jer. 23:4

I will raise up shepherds over [my people] who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the LORD.

Rom. 8:35

I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the LORD.

John 6:56

"…Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.  …"  [Jesus to his skeptics]