daily reading 9.1 (Romans 5:6–8)

  5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024


Our opening prayer for this week:

Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow you.
Destitute, despised, forsaken, You on earth once suffered, too.
Perish every fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known;
Yet how rich is my condition! God and heaven are still my own.

Let the world despise and leave me, they have left my Savior, too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me; You are not, like them, untrue.
And while you shall smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might,
Foes may hate and friends disown me— show your face and all is bright.

Go, then, earthly fame and treasure! Come, disaster, scorn and pain!
In your service, pain is pleasure; with your favor, loss is gain.
I have called you, “Abba, Father”; you my all in all shall be.
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me.

Man may trouble and distress me; ’twill but drive me to your breast.
Life with trials hard may press me; heaven will bring me sweeter rest.
Oh, ’tis not in grief to harm me while your love remains in view;
Oh, ’twere not in joy to charm me, were that joy unmixed with you.

Take, my soul, your full salvation; rise o’er sin, and fear, and care;
Joy to find in every station something still to do or bear:
Think what Spirit dwells within you, what a Father’s smile is yours,
What a Savior died to win you. Child of heaven, why fear hell’s wars?

Haste, my soul from grace to glory, armed by faith, and winged by prayer,
All but heaven is transitory; God’s own hand shall guide you there.
Soon shall close this earthly story; Swift shall pass your pilgrim days;
Hope soon change to heavenly glory, faith to sight, and prayer to praise. Amen.
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Romans 5:6–8

  •  For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 7 For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.
  • 8 But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Helpful notes on Romans 5:6–8 



For yourself pray:

  • That in Christ God gives you sure hope when you are most afraid or most ashamed that he loves you

For others pray:

  • That God leads your whole congregation to be more willing to suffer for his holy name

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

  • Psalm 32 (YouTube, soloist with guitar, "You are my Strength ...")

 

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