The Te Deum is a beautiful prayer that is included in the Office of Readings on Sundays, holy days and solemnities. When saying this prayer yesterday morning, the following stanza stood out to me:
Come then, Lord, and help your people,
bought with the price of your own blood,
and bring us with your saints to glory everlasting.
This passage stood out to me for three reasons:
First, it is a reminder that we need the Lord's help and must ask for it always.
Second, it is a reminder of the price Jesus paid for our salvation. Interestingly, it is a reminder to the person praying the prayer, but also something we place before the Lord, humbly noting that we are his people, which he saw fit to purchase at such a great price.
Finally, it is a reminder of what is to come: glory everlasting.
I pray that we may all achieve that end.
Praise God!!
