Dear God, why do we
have so much trouble
understanding what
you want us to know?
Why is your meaning
concealed from us?
Is it that you speak
to us in a strange
and obscure
language? Through
the ages people from
many
different languages
seem
to have listened to
you.
Have we become dull
in understanding?
Or are we afraid
to ask what you
want us to know
because it might not
be what we want to
hear?
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114
Ezek. 3:4-17
Heb. 5:7-14
Luke 9:37-50
Selected Verses
Ps. 114:1
When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language…
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language…
Ezek. 3:5-6
For you are not sent to a people of obscure speech and
difficult language, but to the house of Israel--not to many peoples of obscure
speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would
listen to you.
[The LORD to Ezekiel]
Heb. 5:11
About this we have much to say that is hard to explain,
since you have become dull in understanding.
Luke 9:45
But [the disciples] did not understand this saying; its
meaning was concealed from them, so that they could not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask [Jesus] about this
saying.
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