How Could We Forget Jesus?--March 11, 2022

[From March 6, 2020 archive]

 

The days came when you were taken away, Jesus;

shall we not remember you?

 

You were despised, abhorred, afflicted,

but God did not hide his face from you—

he heard you when you cried to him. 

 

Now all things are yours:

the world,

 life and death,

present, future,

all belong to you.

 

And we belong to you,

and you belong to God.

How could we forget you?

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130

Gen. 40:1-23

1 Cor. 3:16-23

Mark 2:13-22

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 22:24

For [the LORD] did not despise or abhor
          the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me,
          but heard when I cried to him.

 

Gen. 40:23

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

 

1 Cor. 3:21b-23

For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

 

Mark 2:20

“…The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.  …”  [Jesus, to people who asked why his disciples did not fast]