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"As in That Upper Room You Left Your Seat"
this one especially appropriate for Maundy Thursday communion. I suggest you read it aloud as a prayer. For the corresponding scriptural account, look at John 13:1-17. AS IN THAT UPPER ROOM YOU LEFT YOUR SEAT As in that room you left your seat and took a towel and chose a servant's part, so for today, Lord, wash again my feet, who in your mercy died to cleanse my heart. I bow before you, all my sin confessed, to hear again the words of love you said; and at your table, as your honoured guest, I take and eat the true and living Bread. So in remembrance of your life laid down I come to praise you for your grace divine; saved by your cross, and subject to your crown, strengthened for service by this bread and wine. -Timothy Dudley-Smith, from LIFT EVERY HEART: COLLECTED HYMNS 1961-1983 AND SOME EARLY POEMS, Hope Publishing Company, 1984. © 1984 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission. For permission to copy or use this hymn, please contact: Hope Publishing Company, 380 S. Main Place, Carol Stream, IL 60188 1-800-323-1049 Fax: (630) 665-3200 Email: permission@hopepublishing.com www.hopepublishing.com [A complete INDEX of WORSHIP QUOTES (by author) is found at and prayer by St. Augustine, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, John Stott, Mother Teresa, Oswald Chambers, John Piper, G.K. Chesterton, Brother Lawrence, Graham Kendrick, Calvin Miller, John Milton, A.W. Tozer, and many, many more.] May this be a truly Holy Week for you as you remember the gift that is ours because of the cross and empty tomb. Chip Stam Pastor of Worship and Music Chapel Hill Bible Church Chapel Hill, North Carolina |