April 07, 2007

I. Readings
Psalms 31, 43, 143
Job 19:21-27a
Hebrews 4:1-16
Romans 8:1-11

II. Selections
Psalm 31:22
I had said in my alarm,
"I am driven far from your sight."
But you heard my supplications
when I cried out to you for help.

Job 19:21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!

Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

Romans 8:10
But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

III. Meditation: Cries for help

When we feel driven far from your sight,
we cry to you for help, and you hear us.

Some who cry out to their friends for pity
receive no sympathy for their weaknesses.

But we have a high priest who in every respect
was tested as we are tested, yet he did not sin.

When Christ is in us, though the body may be dead
because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.