Daily Worship

Nimrod

November 13, 2016 0 0

John 15:12-17

My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: love each other.

For Remembrance it has to be Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations. There is something about the sombre majesty of music which always brings me to tears and reminds me that, for many, this is time of great sorrow and the remembering of loss. Yet there is also great beauty and a hope that behind all of the horror, underneath all the tragedy are the everlasting, nail pierced hands.

 

www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/audio

 

Father, just as you gather every tear of sorrow,
anguish and despair, every tear of remembrance,
you also gather every single soul who puts their trust in you.
For so many the gateway to paradise has been through the tragedy of war,
and for so many in your world it is still true now.
May the Prince of Peace, the Lion of Judah, the Lamb that was slain
draw us deeper into the way, the truth and the life,
so we might know that whilst we weep with those who weep,
faith, hope and love remain and call us into the life worth living.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

 

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