LBW 516 “Arise, My Soul, Arise!”
Devotion
This week’s lessons have drawn us into various images of feasting. We have read and heard about a table that is set before us in the presence of our enemies, a wedding banquet and a great heavenly banquet.
All who hunger for God’s love are invited to come to the banquet. What a glorious gift! “Let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” Let us “arise” and “hasten to the feet of our redeemer God” so that we too might fully participate in this feast of love.
His banquet of love
Awaits you above;
Yet here he grants a foretaste of the feast to come!
Rejoice, my soul, rejoice,
To heav’n lift up your voice:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!