Sometimes it’s easy for us to overlook something amazing. For example, Scripture reminds us that God’s eternal power and divine nature are displayed throughout his creation, yet it can be easy to ignore the awesome reality that is all around us. That same kind of thing can happen when we consider certain truths of Scripture. One example of this might be found in Psalm 23. For most of us, this psalm is as familiar as they come. It is put on plaques, inscribed on coffee cups, and read at numerous funerals. Many of us may be able to quote it ourselves. But have we stopped to consider what this psalm claims? David declares that the God who created the universe and all therein is his Shepherd, that God cares for him, and that God commits his mercy and goodness to him. And, when we declare this as believers, we can state these truths as surely as David does. Indeed, God is our Shepherd.

That truth should lead us to worship. Therefore, it will serve this Sunday as our call to worship. And we will respond to the reading of this psalm by singing its truth, as we sing together, My Shepherd. And we will continue to sing of God’s love and care for us, as we follow it by singing another text of Scripture that affirms God’s love and care for his children as we sing together, Isaiah 43.

After hearing and singing of God’s love and care for his children, we will then hear the call that comes to all those who follow Christ, as we hear the reading of Mark 8:27-38. In this text, after Peter affirms that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus tells the crowd that anyone who would come after him must take up his cross and follow Jesus as his Lord. This is clearly a call to die so that we might live. We will, therefore, respond to this text by affirming that we have died to the world and live unto Christ, as we sing together, Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken.

After making such a claim and statement of our devotion to our Lord, we will remind ourselves and one another why such devotion is possible, as we sing together of Christ’s faithfulness to us, in singing, Blessed Assurance.

We will then hear the preaching of the Word from 1 Kings 17 – 2 Kings 1. This text will be preached by Aaron O’Kelley who will hold up for us the beauty of our Lord and of the gospel once again. Therefore, it will be fitting for us to come to the table as a response to the preaching of the Word, singing, And Can It Be, reminding ourselves again of what God has done for us in Christ.

Then, we will sing together, O Lord, to You, realizing that the sacrifices in the Old Testament not only pointed to the sacrifice of Christ for us but also to the reality that those who have died with Christ now live their lives by offering ourselves to God as a living sacrifice. We will be comforted, then, by hearing a benediction from 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17. May God’s grace be with us as we gather with his people to worship him corporately this Sunday morning. Amen.

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