Let’s read aloud the following passages together, as we receive God’s covenant of love afresh.
Psalm 103
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
Ephesians 5.21-22,25-26, 31-32
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord…
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless…
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, we receive your covenant of love afresh today. Thank you that you do not treat us as our sins deserve, instead your blessings are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Let’s worship to the song “Mercies” by Matt Redman (click here).
-GK