A Spirit of Compassion--April 10, 2022

[From April 5, 2020 archive]

 

Sovereign God, King of kings, Lord of lords,

at the right time you brought a King for us,

ultimately triumphant and victorious,

but humble, riding on a donkey.

 

O what deadly wounds 

would be inflicted upon him,

with the taunts, where is your God?

 

As weeping we look upon his suffering, 

pour out on us a spirit of compassion 

and supplication to end suffering

in the world you have given us.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32

Zech. 9:9-12

1 Tim. 6:12-16

Zech. 12:9-11, 13:1, 7-9

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 42:10

As with a deadly wound in my body,
          my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
          “Where is your God?”

 

Zech. 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!  Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!  Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

 

1 Tim. 6:15

…which he will bring about at the right time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords. 

 

Zech. 12:10

And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.