“Oh, Love, How Deep,” verse 7 (ELW 322)
Devotion
All glory to our Lord and God
for love so deep, so high, so broad;
the Trinity whom we adore
forever and forevermore.
The hymn that has helped guide our Lenten journey ends with praise and adoration for God, because of the same love that it celebrated at the beginning of the song—a love "so deep, so high, so broad" that God would take on "mortal form for mortals' sake." That love led Jesus, our servant king, to teach and serve and heal, and eventually led him to death on a cross.
Now on this Holy Saturday, in between the grief of Good Friday and the promised joy of Easter Sunday, we wait with bated breath. But isn't this where we dwell most of the time, if truth be told? Living in a world that too-often breaks our hearts, we trust that Christ has indeed conquered sin and death and we await the final victory. We live in the in-between time, Holy Saturday, but as we do so, we sing with the saints a song of praise to our God, the Holy Trinity, forever and forevermore.
Prayer
In this in-between time, O God, this now-and-not-yet time, open our lips to sing your praise, our eyes to see your glory, and our hearts to know your love. Amen.