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Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s Reading: Introit for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Psalm 66:3, 5, 8-9; antiphon: v. 1-2)
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 40:17-38; Luke 8:40-56
Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. (From the Introit for the Fourth Sunday of Easter)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Sometimes a passage from the Bible invites you to imagine that you were standing and watching a particular event that happened in the past. This can be helpful so you remember that it was not just for people long ago, but rather is still providing ongoing blessing for you in your day. This Introit is taken from Psalm 66, and in this psalm you are invited to remember when God delivered Israel from the Egyptians as they crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 14).
Israel passed through the sea on dry ground, but the Egyptian army that wanted to destroy them drowned and died as the waters fell in on them. As Israel stood free on the far banks of the sea, Moses and the people sang a song of praise to God for delivering them. Psalm 66 calls you to realize that you were delivered that day, too. The God who helped them is the same God who still helps you. As a believer in Christ, your songs of praise also ascend to God for delivering Israel that day.
We pray this psalm during Easter, which means we are praising God, not just for delivering Israel at the Red Sea, but even more for saving us when Jesus died and rose again to give us eternal life. Jesus “has kept us among the living and has not let our feet slip.” He died our death on the Cross and rose again so that we would stay among the living eternally. He has not let us slip away into death and hell. We live because He lives.
When you pray Psalm 66, your songs of praise are joyful because you know God has saved you, too—at the Red Sea, and even greater, at the Cross and the empty tomb. You praise God, because your fathers and mothers in faith were not drowned in the Sea, so you, too, escape. You praise God because Christ is risen, and you, too, shall rise. So join with all the earth and sing His praise, for God “is awesome in His deeds to the children of man” (Psalm 66:5). In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Jeffrey Horn
Holy God, we praise Thy name; Lord of all, we bow before Thee. All on earth Thy scepter claim, all in heaven above adore Thee. Infinite Thy vast domain, everlasting is Thy reign. (Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, LSB 940:1)
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By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: Introit for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Psalm 66:3, 5, 8-9; antiphon: v. 1-2)
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 40:17-38; Luke 8:40-56
Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. (From the Introit for the Fourth Sunday of Easter)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Sometimes a passage from the Bible invites you to imagine that you were standing and watching a particular event that happened in the past. This can be helpful so you remember that it was not just for people long ago, but rather is still providing ongoing blessing for you in your day. This Introit is taken from Psalm 66, and in this psalm you are invited to remember when God delivered Israel from the Egyptians as they crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 14).
Israel passed through the sea on dry ground, but the Egyptian army that wanted to destroy them drowned and died as the waters fell in on them. As Israel stood free on the far banks of the sea, Moses and the people sang a song of praise to God for delivering them. Psalm 66 calls you to realize that you were delivered that day, too. The God who helped them is the same God who still helps you. As a believer in Christ, your songs of praise also ascend to God for delivering Israel that day.
We pray this psalm during Easter, which means we are praising God, not just for delivering Israel at the Red Sea, but even more for saving us when Jesus died and rose again to give us eternal life. Jesus “has kept us among the living and has not let our feet slip.” He died our death on the Cross and rose again so that we would stay among the living eternally. He has not let us slip away into death and hell. We live because He lives.
When you pray Psalm 66, your songs of praise are joyful because you know God has saved you, too—at the Red Sea, and even greater, at the Cross and the empty tomb. You praise God, because your fathers and mothers in faith were not drowned in the Sea, so you, too, escape. You praise God because Christ is risen, and you, too, shall rise. So join with all the earth and sing His praise, for God “is awesome in His deeds to the children of man” (Psalm 66:5). In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Jeffrey Horn
Holy God, we praise Thy name; Lord of all, we bow before Thee. All on earth Thy scepter claim, all in heaven above adore Thee. Infinite Thy vast domain, everlasting is Thy reign. (Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, LSB 940:1)