Category Archives: I Bind Unto Myself Today

Praise to the Lord of my salvation;
salvation is of Christ the Lord!

Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.

Use meditation as a time to become aware of God’s presence. Find a quiet spot, set a timer for five minutes (or more), close your eyes, and pay attention to your breath. Remember that God is as close to you as the air in your lungs.

This week, the hymn sings of the splendor of creation, and our scripture reminds Job and us that God’s fingerprints are on everything we see.

In the second chapter of Acts, a Spirit-filled Peter stands before the crowd and delivers a scintillating summary of the Christian faith. On this week when the hymn leads us to focus on the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, the traditional Jesus Prayer can provide an answer to the question Peter stirred up in his listeners: “What shall we do?”

One of the marvels of the Trinity is how God is fundamentally about relationship, so much so that God is in relationship with God’s own self: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Before we start using the hymn itself as our devotional piece on Sunday, a little background knowledge on it that will enrich your encounter. A Lenten examen will invite you to think about this Lenten road and how you want to walk it.

This devotional offers inspiration for the Lenten journey, exploring an ancient hymn, “I Bind Unto Myself Today,” written by St. Patrick. Each verse of the hymn offers a focus for a week of Lent, and inspires ways to pray, things from which to fast, and how we might give.