How Manifold Your Works--Jan. 12, 2014

 How manifold are your works, O God.

In wisdom you have made them all.

The earth is full of your creatures,

and we are your creatures too;

for you created us, male and female.

And you gave us Jesus, the Lamb

who takes away the sin of the world.

And in the fullness of time you

will gather up all things in him,

things in heaven and things on earth.

Lord God, how manifold

are your works.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 104; 150; 29

Gen. 1:1-2:3

Eph. 1:3-14

John 1:29-34

Selected Verses

Ps. 104:24

 O LORD, how manifold are your works!
          In wisdom you have made them all;
          the earth is full of your creatures.

Gen. 1:27

So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Eph. 1:9-10

…he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

John 1:29

The next day [John] saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, "Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!  …"