Daily Worship

The Living Word

July 27, 2012 0 0

Ecclesiastes 5:2

​Do not be quick with your mouth,

do not be hasty in your heart

to utter anything before God.

God is in heaven

and you are on earth,

so let your words be few.

​Almighty God, yours was the first word.

Speaking it, you created this Earth, and the universe too,

your Spirit hovering over the waters of the deep.

Yours shall be the last word

when you make all things new

and open the spring of the water of life.

God of grace, your Son is the Living Word

who, thirsty under the noon-day desert sun,

asked a stranger for a drink

and promised living, bubbling, life-giving water.

Yours is the first, and the last, and the Living Word.

Let me hear; let me kneel down, and drink, and live.

Amen.

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written by Grant Barclay