Why Do We Look up to Heaven?--June 19, 2017

We are deeply troubled, Lord God, with

neither knowledge nor understanding.

We pour out our soul before you.

We walk around in darkness--

all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

We have rejected Jesus, the cornerstone;

Why, then, do we look up to heaven?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29

1 Sam. 1:1-20

Acts 1:1-14

Luke 20:9-19

Selected Verses

Ps. 82

[The other gods] have neither knowledge nor understanding,
          they walk around in darkness;
          all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

1 Sam. 1:15

But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman deeply troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.

Acts 1:10-11

While [Jesus] was going [up] and [his disciples] were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them.  They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven?  …"

Luke 20:17-18

But [Jesus] looked at [the people] and said, "What then does this text mean:
     'The stone that the builders rejected
          has become the cornerstone'?
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."