Jesus, You Have Made Us Glad--May 31, 2014

Lord Jesus, you have made us glad by your work;

at the works of your hands we sing for joy--

hands for healing, hands for choosing.

You chose strangers and aliens to be citizens with

the saints in the household of God, built upon

the foundation of apostles and prophets,

in which you form the cornerstone.

Lord, grant us some portion of

your Spirit, that we may

help bear the burden,

glad to be doing

your work.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114

Num. 11:16-17, 24-29

Eph. 2:11-22

Matt. 7:28-8:4

Selected Verses

Ps. 92:4

 For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work;
          at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

Num. 11:17

"…I will come down and talk with you [at the tent of meeting]; and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on [the seventy elders]; and they shall bear the burden of the people along with you so that you will not bear it all by yourself.  …"  [The LORD to Moses]

Eph. 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

Matt. 8:3

[Jesus] stretched out his hand and touched [the leper], saying, "I do choose.  Be made clean!"  Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.