Worship Notes for Sunday, July 14, 2013
Continuing in Luke 11, we next come to the passage describing what it means to be full of light having no darkness as a lamp on a stand gives out light. The Call to Worship from Isaiah 42 speaks of the Lord giving His people as a light for the nations to bring out those who sit in darkness. We respond by singing Glory Be to God the Father and Immortal, Invisible.The New Testament Reading from I Peter 2 reminds us that God has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light—what a fitting metaphor of conversion from stumbling in the darkness to walking in the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. The Prayer of Confession from Isaiah 59 emphasizes this reality of the separation that sin has caused in darkness, gloom, and in stumbling. The Assurance of Pardon from I John 1 dispels this darkness and separation by the encouragement to walk in the light, in fellowship, in the forgiveness of our sins.
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing serves to remind us that we are prone to wander, but the Lord God seals our heart in His kingdom of light. The Hymns of Communion, Give, Me Jesus and It is Well, further emphasize our need for Christ and the assurance that He brings as light in our darkness.
We conclude by singing, Love Divine, All Love’s Excelling as a prayer for God to continue His work in us to finish us as new creations.
