March 31, 2007

I. Readings
Psalms 31, 43, 143
Jeremiah 31:27-34
Romans 11:25-36
John 11:28-44

II. Selections
Psalm 143:3
For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing my life to the ground,
making me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Romans 11:36
For from [ God] and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.

John 11:44
The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

III. Meditation: When the enemy pursues

Put your law within us,
and write it on our hearts;
for indeed you are our God,
and we would be your people.
From you and through you
and to you are all things.
Glory to you forever.

When the enemy pursues,
crushes our life to the ground,
makes us sit in darkness like those
long dead-bring us out from darkness,
unbind our hands and feet, uncover
our face, and let us go free.
Glory to you forever.