Give praise and honour to God
for God is good
Good and loving is the Lord
were there no human lips to call forth praise of the Lord
the very heaven and skies would proclaim the work of The Almighty’s hands
without words, without sound they show God’s glory
for the voice of the skies reached to ends of the earth
the speech of the heavens envelopes the whole world
Give praise and honour to God
heavens and skies
trees and fields
birds of the air and fish of the sea
Give praise and honour to God
you people, gathered here
know the law of the Lord is perfect
bringing refreshment to the soul
the statues of the Lord are trustworthy
making wise the foolish
the precepts of the Lord are right
giving joy to the heart
Come and know the joy of the Lord
bow in reverence before God
who in God’s wisdom have adopted us as God’s children
through our faith in Jesus Christ, God’s son
Christ Jesus
who took on the foolishness of the world
to show the wisdom of God
through the shame of the cross
that, in and through it, we would know the love of God
and we would be able to come to worship God
laying down our pain, our doubts, our fears
confessing before God our wrongdoings
that in our foolishness and weakness we have sinned against God and against one another
Christ Jesus
we bring our failings before your cross
knowing it’s foolishness, we are forgiven, restored, loved
called to preach the wisdom of God, summed up in the cross of Christ
Amen