My Song Is Love Unknown, ELW 343 & LBW 94
1 My song is love unknown,
My Savior's love to me,
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
Oh, who am I, that for my sake
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
2 He came from his blest throne,
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know.
But, oh, my friend, my friend indeed,
Who at my need his life did spend;
Who at my need his life did spend!
6 In life, no house, no home
My Lord on earth might have;
In death, no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav'n was his home;
But mine the tomb wherein he lay.
7 Here might I stay and sing
No story so divine!
Never was love, dear King,
Never was grief like thine.
This is my friend, in whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend!
Devotion
A writer told a story about a dad struggling with his teenage daughter dating a “loser” (in his opinion). What did she see in him, the dad decried? The writer thought and spoke slowly: in the story of that relationship, she is incredibly important; she is a main character. She can live inside that story as being fundamentally important to the whole story.
The Spirit, calling us through the Gospel into faith, issues daily invitations to living in the unfolding drama of God’s reconciling work in the world. This love story, full of grace and truthtelling, is the story that inside “all [our] days could gladly spend.”
Prayer
Gracious God, help us remember that your Son is the main character in your story of loving the world. May we continually rediscover what you would have of us this day. Amen.