Easter 1

Lord and God,

Great and glorious are you, Father; you who exalt the humble and cast down the proud and mighty. The powerful do not see you, but you reveal yourself to the weak. As David was strengthened while a fugitive, as a man born blind beheld the Son of Man, so you deal well with your servants.

Yet you teach us in our affliction. David learned mercy and obedience. A blind man has seen you. You yourself are said to have been disciplined by what you suffered. Yet you only suffered and learned purely for our sake. The insolent smeared you with lies, calling you a Sabbath breaker, but with your whole heart, like David eating the bread of the presence, you kept your Father’s precepts. Worthy are you, Lord Jesus Christ—worth more to us than thousands of gold and silver pieces.