Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
My mediation is Your law!
I love to contemplate
All day the law You gave to us.
Through Your commands You made me wise,
More than my enemies can know.
More than my teachers I have learned,
Your laws instruct my heart.
More than the ancients I have learned
Because I keep Your holy law
And do not cling to vanity.
I keep my feet from evil ways
That I might keep Your Word.
I have not left Your judgments off,
For You have taught Your law to me
To one who walks within that word.
I taste the sweetness of Your words!
Your law is honey, pure.
And through Your laws I learn the way,
Because Your truth instructs me now
I come to hate the liar’s path.
And so, gracious Father, we worship You now through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end, amen
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