Psalm 22:1-15 or Job 23:1-9, 16-17
Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35 or Job 38:1-7
I will be exploring these passages over the next week. I like the challenge of them. The Psalms are especially interesting understanding them as something Jesus would have prayed. I like to think of Jesus as one who always is liturgical. His was a liturgical life, both in the sense of the cultic and in the sense of the daily. The writers of the Gospels had liturgical words at the tip of their pens as well.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Jesus quotes a psalm on the cross. Whether they were actually his words or a literary device employed by a gospeller, it matters not to me...That those words come from a Psalm, a hymn, matter a great deal to me as I contemplate these passages.
Posted by tripp at April 5, 2006 01:25 PM