Make Us Dead to Sin--March 16, 2014

[from Feb. 17, 2008 archive]

The thin and ugly cows are never satisfied.

They devour the fat and happy cows in an instant,

but they remain as thin and ugly as ever.

Forgive our transgression, O Christ, and cover our sin,

lest we also be consumed by the thin and ugly.

Make us dead to sin and alive to you;

raise us from the dead and give us new life.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32

Gen. 41:14-45

Rom. 6:3-14

John 5:19-24

Selected Verses

Psalm 32:1

Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven,

            whose sin is covered.

Genesis 41:20-21

The thin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows, but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had done so, for they were still as ugly as before.

Romans 6:11

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

John 5:21

Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.