Your Son, whom the World Didn't Know--Jan. 11, 2016

You are great, O God, greatly to be praised,

and your greatness is unsearchable.

And your Son is the reflection of your glory,

the exact imprint of your very being.

By his powerful word, he sustains all things;

the world came into being through him,

yet when he came into the world, the world did

not know him--we whom you formed

from the dust of the ground--we did not know him,
the true light of the world.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29

Gen. 2:4-25

Heb. 1:1-14

John 1:1-18

Selected Verses

Ps. 145:3

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;
          his greatness is unsearchable.

Gen. 2:7

…then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 

Heb. 1:3a

[The Son] is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word.

John 1:10

[The true light] was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.