Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love, ELW 708
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Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
1 Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet, master who acts as a slave to them.
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2 Neighbors are wealthy and poor, varied in color and race, neighbors are nearby and far away.
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3 These are the ones we will serve, these are the ones we will love; all these are neighbors to us and you.
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4 Kneel at the feet of our friends, silently washing their feet: this is the way we will live with you.
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Devotion
For reflection on our historical and biblical legacy, inspiration, and a critical and ethical challenge, it is necessary to wed the text and tune of any of our hymns in order to meet the needs we have as a worshiping community of faith. Such a hymn is Jesu, Jesu, which portrays the essence of Jesus’ ministry not only for the Church of Ghana, using one of its native folksongs, but for all of us in our time. Because we are Christian, we follow that one around whom our faith centers. His ministry must become our ministry, otherwise we must be honest and drop that name identification. To sing the words, “Jesu, fill us with your love,” is essentially a cry for help that we might live our lives in such fashion as did our Lord. This means pouring out our lives for others, receiving everyone as our neighbor and promising that we will find ways in which these expressions might be lovingly effected.
Prayer
Lord, touch our lives with the power of your Spirit so that we might always reflect your love onto the lives of others. Amen.