Seeking the prayers of the Bible in the Daily Bible Readings often brings days of interesting stories, proverbs, parables, or prophecies, but not necessarily prayer. Today, however, choices arose in the passage from Isaiah below and the Gospel reading from Luke 1:46-55, also known as The Magnificat. Since “The song of Mary, Mother of Jesus” had previously been prayer-a-phrased here, I encourage you to visit that post, too, to see and hear how beautifully Mary embodied this prayer-life of praise from the Prophets.
Greatly will I rejoice in the LORD!
My whole being shall exult in my God,
Who clothes me with garments of salvation.
God has robed me in righteousness –
the way a bridegroom wears a garland
or jewels adorn a bride.
The whole earth brings forth beauty
like a spring garden with shoots growing
from what’s sown.
So the Lord God has sown us
with righteousness and praise
ready to spring into flower
and clothe the nations.
©2013, Mary Harwell Sayler, prayer-a-phrased poem from today's Daily Bible Reading in Isaiah 61:10-11
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A beautiful expression of how precious we are to God that He clothed us in these amazing garments. We are the planting of the lord to spring forth in due season to touch nations.
ReplyDeleteYes! I pray Christian poets and writers carry the seed of this thought and recall how beautifully God clothes us with seeds and garments sown :)
ReplyDeleteIf only we could rejoice every day as Mary does with the blessings of the Lord for His divine intercession in our lives!
ReplyDeleteAmen! And may God help us to receive Christ more fully in our lives as Mary did.
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