The Love with which You Loved Jesus--March 8, 2014

 You send, and you gather back--you are the Lord.

You teach us the secret of being well-fed and

of going hungry; the secret of having

plenty and of being in need--

you are our faithful God.

The love with which you

loved Jesus, may it be in us,

and he in us.  Into your hand we

commit our spirit; you have redeemed us.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Ezek. 39:21-29

Phil. 4:10-20

John 17:20-26

Selected Verses

Ps. 31:5

Into your hand I commit my spirit;
          you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

Ezek. 39:28

Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land.  I will leave none of them behind…

Phil. 4:12

I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty.  In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.

John 17:26

"…I made your name known to [those you have given me], and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."  [Jesus concludes his prayer for his disciples.]