Who Is to Blame, God?--Feb. 14, 2022

[From Feb. 17, 2020 archive]

 

You, O God, are near to all who call on you,

to all who call on you in truth. 

 

But when misfortune comes, we want to find

someone to blame for it;

often we blame you.

 

I believe that when disaster makes us weep,

you are weeping with us.

 

Teach us to walk in your light, and give us

fellowship with one another.

 

Then we will have no need to find

someone to blame.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 135; 145; 97; 112

Gen. 30:1-24

1 John 1:1-10

John 9:1-17

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 145:18

The LORD is near to all who call on him,
          to all who call on him in truth.

 

Gen. 30:2

Jacob became very angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” 

 

1 John 1:7

…but if we walk in the light as [God] himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

 

John 9:2

His disciples asked [Jesus], “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”