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"God has clothed himself in humanity,
For me a sufferer he has suffered;
For one condemned he has been judged;
For one buried he has been buried;
But he is risen from the dead
And he cries:
'Who will plead against me?
I have delivered the one who was condemned,
I have given back life to him who was dead,
I have raised up one who was buried.
Who will dispute my cause?
I have abolished death,
I have crushed hell,
I have raised humanity to the highest heavens,
Yes I, the Christ . . ."
- Melito of Sardis, Easter Homily
(Christ, the Victor over sin, evil and death. Let Him strengthen you this day.)
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Acts 4:32-37; Ps. 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5; Jn 3:7b-15
R. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.
The LORD is king, in splendor robed;
robed is the LORD and girt about with strength.
And he has made the world firm,
not to be moved.
Your throne stands firm from of old;
from everlasting you are, O LORD.
Your decrees are worthy of trust
indeed:
holiness befits your house,
O LORD, for length of days.
UCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
Jesus gives us the Holy Spirit that we may have power to be his witnesses and to spread and defend the gospel by word and action, and to never be ashamed of the Cross of Christ. The Holy Spirit gives us his seven-fold gifts of wisdom and understanding, right judgment and courage, knowledge and reverence for God and his ways, and a holy fear in God’s presence (see Isaiah
11) that we may live for God and serve him in the power of his strength. Do you thirst for new life in the Spirit?
“Lord Jesus Christ, your death brought life for us. Fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may walk in freedom and joy as a child of God and as an heir with Christ of an eternal
inheritance.”
DailyScripture.net
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous
That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself.
LO! hereby mayest thou see that he that may not come for to see and feel the perfection of this work but by long travail, and yet is it but seldom, may lightly be deceived if
he speak, think, and deem other men as he feeleth in himself, that they may not come to it but seldom, and that not without great travail. And on the same manner may he be deceived that may have it when he will, if he deem all other thereafter; saying that they may have it when they will. Let be this: nay, surely he may not think thus. For peradventure, when it liketh unto God, that those that may not at the first time have it but seldom, and that not without great travail, sithen after they
shall have it when they will, as oft as them liketh. Ensample of this we have of Moses, that first but seldom, and not without great travail, in the mount might not see the manner of the Ark: and sithen after, as oft as by him liked, saw it in the Veil.
- Chapter
72
(The term, "ghostly" = "spiritual".)
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