Lord, we hear your Word with gladness: you have spoken--we rejoice: words of love and life and freedom-- help us make their truth our choice! Now in holy celebration for your Word we worship you; spoken, written, known in Jesus, ours today to prove anew. May we hear with understanding, by your Spirit taught and led; may the springs of all our being by your Living Word be fed; may our hearts accept with meekness all the grace your light makes known; may obedience mark our footsteps till we make each word our own! You have spoken--yours the fulness, ours the wealth of this your Word: debtors, then, as living letters we must make your Gospel heard! By your Spirit's power transform us; shed your saving Light abroad till our lives by love in action show our world the truth of God!