To See Christ's Glory, Full of Grace and Truth--April 1, 2018

Your steadfast love endures forever, O God;

you have remembered us in our low estate.

This shall be a day of remembrance for us.

No one has ever seen you, but you have

given us your only Son, who is close

to your heart, to make you known.

He became flesh, and lived among us.

Open our eyes, that we may see him;

then our hearts will burn within us,

and he will open scriptures to us,

and we will see his glory, full

of grace and truth.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117

Exod. 12:1-14

John 1:1-18

Luke 24:13-35

Selected Verses

Ps. 136:23

It is [the LORD] who remembered us in our low estate,
          for his steadfast love endures forever…

Exod. 12:14

This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

John 1:14, 18

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.  …No one has ever seen God.  It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

Luke 24:31-32

Then [the eyes of Cleopas and his friend] were opened, and they recognized [Jesus]; and he vanished from their sight.  They said to each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?"