Where Are You, God?--Jan. 11, 2022

[From Jan. 10, 2006 archive]

 

Day and night, tears for food, 

we ask, “Where are you, God?”

People suffer, people die,

Where are you?

 

We have not looked

in the right place.

Among us stands one 

whom we do not know.

 

Open our eyes to see Jesus, 

who suffered and died, 

that by your grace 

he might taste death for everyone.

 

You have your own question for us,

the one you called out 

to two who shivered in the garden,

“Where are you?” 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133

Gen. 3:1-24

Heb. 2:1-10

John 1:19-28

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 42:3

My tears have been my food 

          day and night, 

while people say to me continually, 

           “Where is your God?"\”

Gen. 3:9

But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” 

Heb. 2:9

…but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 

John 1:26

John answered them, “I baptize with water.  Among you stands one whom you do not know…”