Daily Worship

Hope

Jock Stein December 27, 2014 0 0

Romans 8:24

Romans 8.24

We were saved in hope. If we see what we hope for, that isn’t hope. Who hopes for what they already see?

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There’s a song in every silence,
seeking word and melody.
There’s a dawn in every darkness,
bringing hope to you and me.
From the past will come the future,
what it holds, a mystery,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.

Natalie Sleeth

God, we journey through a space you have opened up, through a time you have chosen to fulfil your purpose. This is an age of providence and privilege, and well as danger. Teach us the meaning of hope, and how to practise hopeful living, for your name’s sake.

We commend to you the work of science and discovery, and all who work at the frontiers of human knowledge. We pray for the vulnerable, and those who care for them. May your people become pillars of faith, communities of hope, litanies of love. In song and in silence, in sorrow and in joy, may the Lord’s name be praised.

Thanks be to God, who sets the solitary in families. Amen.