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Wednesday – 25 December 2013
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Verses:
Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalm 98:1-6
Hebrews 1:1-6
John 1:1-18 or 1:1-5, 9-14
Isaiah 52:7-10
7 How beautiful
on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;
together they shout for joy.
When the Lord returns to Zion,
they will see it with their own eyes.
9 Burst into songs of joy together,
you ruins of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord will lay bare his holy arm
in the sight of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;
together they shout for joy.
When the Lord returns to Zion,
they will see it with their own eyes.
9 Burst into songs of joy together,
you ruins of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord will lay bare his holy arm
in the sight of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
Psalm 98:1-6
1 Sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things;
his right hand and his holy arm
have worked salvation for him.
2 The Lord has made his salvation known
and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
3 He has remembered his love
and his faithfulness to Israel;
all the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.
for he has done marvelous things;
his right hand and his holy arm
have worked salvation for him.
2 The Lord has made his salvation known
and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
3 He has remembered his love
and his faithfulness to Israel;
all the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.
4 Shout for joy
to the Lord, all the earth,
burst into jubilant song with music;
5 make music to the Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn—
shout for joy before the Lord, the King.
burst into jubilant song with music;
5 make music to the Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn—
shout for joy before the Lord, the King.
Hebrews 1:1-6
God’s Final Word: His Son
1 In the past God spoke to our
ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but
in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of
all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the
exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became
as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to
theirs.
The Son Superior to Angels
5 For to which of the angels did God ever
say,
“You
are my Son;
today I have become your Father”?
today I have become your Father”?
Or again,
“I
will be his Father,
and he will be my Son”?
and he will be my Son”?
6 And again, when God brings his
firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let
all God’s angels worship him.”
John 1:1-18
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He
was with God in the beginning. 3 Through
him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light
of all mankind. 5 The light shines in
the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome
it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name
was John. 7 He came as a witness to
testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a
witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to
everyone was coming into the world. 10 He
was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not
recognize him. 11 He came to that which
was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet
to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the
right to become children of God— 13 children
born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but
born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son,
who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried
out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me
has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out
of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace
and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No
one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and
is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
A light shall shine upon us this day: for the Lord is born to us: and He
shall be called Wonderful, God, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the world to
come: of whose reign there shall be no end.
-- Is. ix. 2, 6
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Source:
New
International Version (NIV)
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