Saturday 10 September 2016

Gratitude for Mercy

1 Tim 1: 12–17





From God Immortal,
God Invisible, God
the only Divine One
flows mercy, strength,
faith and love.

God shows mercy,
grace and patience
to the faithful, the blasphemer,
the persecutor and the violent;
to the ignorant, the unbelieving,
to the sinner.

Saved by mercy from
ourselves, our ignorant,
violent, blaspheming selves,
we turn, believing,
receiving and rejoicing; we
turn and in our turn
we point to God, faithful
through the ages, source
of mercy, source of grace,
and bow our faces to the ground.

To God Immortal, God
Invisible, God the only
Divine One, be honour,
be glory, always and forever.

Amen.

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