Daily Prayer - His wounds have paid my ransom

Good Monday morning, my friends.

 

Yesterday during our worship service, the band sang "How Deep the Father's Love for Us" and although I have heard this song before, the lyrics really hit home for me. 

How deep the Father's love for us

How vast beyond all measure

That He would give His only Son

To make a wretch His treasure

 

How great the pain of searing loss

The Father turns His face away

As wounds which mar the chosen One

Bring many sons to glory

 

Behold the Man upon a cross

My sin upon His shoulders

Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice

Call out among the scoffers

 

It was my sin that held Him there

Until it was accomplished

His dying breath has brought me life

I know that it is finished

 

I will not boast in anything

No gifts, no powr, no wisdom

But I will boast in Jesus Christ

His death and resurrection

 

Why should I gain from His reward?

I cannot give an answer

But this I know with all my heart

His wounds have paid my ransom

 

©1995 Kingsway's Thankyou Music

Words and Music by Stuart Townend

 

Behold the Man upon a cross, my sin upon His shoulders

Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers.  Ouch.

 

Why should I gain from His reward? Indeed. I cannot give an answer.

But this I know with all my heart: His wounds have paid my ransom

 

A perfect Father's Day message - how great the Father's love for us!

 

 

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,

Bruce

 

On this Father's Day, we pray for all those entrusted with the responsibility of care for others.

For those who, against their will, are distant from their children: we pray for encouragement, for changes in circumstances, and for a means of communication with their children strong enough to allow love to be known.

 

For those who are distant from their children by choice, by accident, by mistake or by neglect: awaken in them the desire, the hunger, the courage, to become who you have called them to be.

 

For those who are emotionally distant from their children: grant a renewed vision of who we are in relation to others and to you; give a sense of urgency to arranging life's priorities; grant the courage to admit weakness and passion to passion to work through it.

 

We pray for all those with a negative taste of fatherhood, whose experience of their own father, leaves them unable to use that word of you.

 

We thank you for those who find their own wellbeing, in that of their children - and pray that all our relationships may be fruitful:

 

We thank you for all those parents who - for the sake of their children - have battled against poverty, against their own selfishness, against tiredness.

 

We thank you for those who have battled against the divorce industry, against slander, and against despair.

 

We thank you for all who model what it means to be father.

 

Open our eyes again to the true burdens and the true joys of fatherhood.

 

On this day, when we celebrate Fatherhood - may we see in you, the face of one who has struggled with your children, who has felt their failure and felt their joy, and who has never given up on them.

 

And as we look to you, we thank you for all whom you have called to represent you as fathers.

 

The Revd Simon Perry

 

(http://www.baptisttimes.co.uk/index.php/prayer/297-prayer-for-fathers-day)

 

 

Bruce MacPherson

macpherson@celtic.ca / Blog: The Celtic Christian / Home: 613.489.4174 Cell: 613.720.0821

 

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