When All Our Hope Is Lost--April 8, 2021

God of our salvation, you daily bear us up.

When we suppose that we are cut off from you 

 

and all our hope is lost, remind us: in Christ 

you have blessed all families of the earth.

 

And also this, as Christ has loved us, 

we must love one another. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 47; 147:12-20; 68; 113

Ezek. 37:1-14

Acts 3:11-26

John 15:12-27

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 68:19

Blessed be the Lord,
          who daily bears us up;
          God is our salvation.  Selah

 

Ezek. 37:11

Then [the LORD] said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel.  They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’  …”

 

Acts 3:25

“…You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’  …”  [Peter, to the crowd in the temple]

 

John 15:12

“…This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  …”  [Jesus, to the eleven disciples]