Psalm
81 Prayed
Rejoicing the gospel of grace before the Lord’s Table
O Jesus our strength, we sing for joy to you;
we
shout aloud to you, the God of the Church!
We begin the music, strike the
tambourine,
we
play the melodious guitars and bass for
your
glory and to worship you.
We play the organ on the Lord’s
Day,
and
when Easter Sunday comes;
on
the Feast when our Lord rose from the dead;
for this is a joy for
Christians everywhere,
a
blessing from the God of the Church.
You established this as a
statute for your people,
when
you went out against Satan,
who once made us hear a
language we could not
understand:
For the god of this age had blinded
our minds as
unbelievers,
so that we could not see the
light of the gospel
of the glory of you, O Christ,
for
you are the image of God.
But now our blinded eyes have
been opened,
our
ears, once deaf to your promises
have
been unstopped.
These are your promises to us,
Lord Jesus,
invitations
that now make us rejoice:
“Come to me, all you who are
weary
and burdened,
and
I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from
me,
for
I am gentle and humble in heart,
and
you will find rest for your souls.
For
my yoke is easy
and
my burden is light.
I will remove the burden of
guilt from your
shoulders;
just
as I set the Israelite slaves free
from
carrying their baskets of bricks,
and I will love you
and
free you from your sins by my blood.
In your distress, call on me
and I will rescued you,
I
will answer you out of a thundercloud;
where the great multitude,
like
the roar of rushing waters
and
like loud peals of thunder are shouting,
“Hallelujah!
For
our Lord God Almighty reigns.”
Rather than test you
as
I tested Israel at the waters of Meribah,
where
they quarrelled with me
and
where I showed myself holy among
them,
I will I give you water that
will become in you
a
spring of water welling up to eternal life.
For what the law was powerless
to do
in
that it was weakened by your sinful nature,
God the Father did by sending
me, his Son,
in
the likeness of sinful man
to
be a sin offering.
For I am the mediator of a
covenant
which
is superior to the old one I made with
Israel,
and
it is founded on better promises.”
Since we are so loved by you,
may
this be our love for you, O God:
may we obey your commands.
and
your commands are not burdensome
May all your people hear your
warning,
O,
if only your Church would listen to you!
May we have no foreign god
amongst us
may
we not bow down to an alien god,
for you are the Lord our God,
who
brought us out of slavery to sin.
It was for freedom that you set
us free, O Christ.
May
we therefore stand firm,
and
not let ourselves be burdened again
by
a yoke of slavery.
We open wide our mouths to you,
O Lord,
may
we taste and see that you are good,
until
we are full.
Forgive us O Lord Jesus,
for
your people will not listen to you,
your
Church will not submit to you,
so you give us over to our
stubborn hearts
to
follow our own devices.
Oh, if only your people would
listen to you
if
your Church would follow your ways,
how quickly you would subdue
our spiritual
enemies
and
turn your hand against our spiritual foes.
Satan’s hoards who hate you
would cringe before you,
and
their punishment would last forever.
O Lord, feed us with the finest
of wheat,
with
honey from the rock to satisfy us.
Let us all eat the same
spiritual food that Israel ate,
and
drink the same spiritual drink;
may we drink from the spiritual
rock that
accompanied
them,
for
that rock is you, O Christ.
May the cup of thanksgiving for
which we give
thanks
be
to us a participation in your blood, O Christ.
May the bread we break be a
participation in your
body
O Christ.
Because there is one loaf,
may
we who are many, be one body,
for
we all partake of the one loaf.
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Psalm 81 Prayed
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