Your Grace Has Abounded--March 11, 2021

 

We are human beings, Lord Jesus;

our way is not in our control —

we cannot direct our steps —

but your grace has abounded; 

you have done great things for us.

 

We are your disciples; 

we know your truth;

it has set us free,

and we rejoice.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102

Jer. 10:11-24

Rom. 5:12-21

John 8:21-32

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 126:3

The LORD has done great things for us,
          and we rejoiced.

 

Jer. 10:23

I know, O LORD, that the way of human beings is not in their control,
          that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.

 

Rom. 5:15

But the free gift is not like the trespass.  For if the many died through the one man’s trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. 

 

John 8:31-32

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”