Psalm
114 Prayed
Praising the Lord for his faithfulness to his people
O Lord, when you led ancient
Israel came out of
Egypt,
the
house of Jacob from a people of foreign
tongue,
Judah became your sanctuary,
Israel
your dominion.
Just as we the Church are your
temple,
and
your Holy Spirit lives in us.
And your temple is sacred,
and
we are that temple.
We
remember that before you saved us
we
were separate from you, O Christ,
excluded from citizenship in Israel
and
foreigners to the covenants of the
promise,
without
hope and without God in the world.
But
now in you, O Christ Jesus
we
who once were far away
have
been brought near
through
your blood.
Thank
you that today,
we
are no longer foreigners and strangers,
but
fellow citizens with your people Israel
and
also members of your household,
built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets,
with
you yourself as the chief cornerstone.
In you the whole building is joined together
and
rises to become a holy temple for you, O
Lord.
And in you we too are being built together
to
become a dwelling in which God lives by
the
Holy Spirit.
By
faith the people of Israel
passed through the Red Sea as on dry
land;
but
when the Egyptians tried to do so,
they
were drowned.
The
sea looked and fled,
the
Jordan turned back;
Israel crossed the Jordan on
dry ground,
for
you, the Lord our God dried up the Jordan
before
them until they crossed over.
You, the Lord our God, did to
the Jordan
just
what you had done to the Red Sea
when you dried it up
until
Israel crossed over.
The mountains skipped like
rams,
the
hills like lambs.
Why was it, O sea, that you
fled,
O
Jordan, that you turned back,
you mountains, that you skipped
like rams,
you
hills, like lambs?
These things happened to them
as examples
and
were written down as warnings for us, the
Church,
on
whom the fulfilment of the ages has come.
Tremble, O earth, at the
presence of the Lord,
at
the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a
pool,
the
hard rock into springs of water.
Ancient Israel ate the same
spiritual food as us,
and
drank the same spiritual drink as us;
for they drank from the
spiritual rock that
accompanied
them,
and
that rock was you, O Christ.
Therefore may we drink of the
water you give us,
so
that we will never thirst.
Indeed, let the water you give us
become
in us a spring of water
welling
up to eternal life.
O Lord Jesus Christ,
you
are the bread of life.
Israel’s forefathers ate the
manna in the desert,
yet
they died.
But you are the bread that came
down from
heaven,
which
anyone may eat and not die.
May we eat of this bread,
so
that we can live forever.
This bread is your flesh
which
you have given for the life of the world.
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Psalm 114 Prayed
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