Remembering redemption

Listen to this daily worship
Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 (NIVUK)
1
I cried out to God for help;
I cried out to God to hear me.2
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at night I stretched out untiring hands,
and I would not be comforted.
11
I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.12
I will consider all your works
and meditate on all your mighty deeds.’13
Your ways, God, are holy.
What god is as great as our God?14
You are the God who performs miracles;
you display your power among the peoples.15
With your mighty arm you redeemed your people,
the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.16
The waters saw you, God,
the waters saw you and writhed;
the very depths were convulsed.17
The clouds poured down water,
the heavens resounded with thunder;
your arrows flashed back and forth.18
Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,
your lightning lit up the world;
the earth trembled and quaked.19
Your path led through the sea,
your way through the mighty waters,
though your footprints were not seen.20
You led your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
From the hadal zone of the deepest ocean
where no sunlight reaches
then rising through the abyssal and the midnight zones
where light is rumoured
to the emergent colour of twilight and
the vivid sunlight zones
— hadopelagic to epipelagic —
God is present,
God is at work,
but you’re not done there God
for breaking the surface
you enter the troposphere where we live
and you carry on working and rising
into the stratosphere, nostrils stinging with ozone
and on into the thermosphere, the ionosphere, the exosphere
and the magnetosphere that holds us protected
before the sun.
Suspended in time and space
suspended in light and air
suspended in Christ’s outstretched arms
we remember
all that we are held through
all that we are led through
all that we are loved through.
We remember it all God
with gratitude, sorrow, and hope
Amen.
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