"My God!" he exclaimed, "thy vengeance is sometimes delayed, but only that it may fall the more effectually." Ali looked at his master for further instructions.
Caderousse, who had raised himself on his knees, and stretched out his arm, tried to draw back, then clasping his hands, and raising them with a desperate effort, "O my God, my God!" said he, "pardon me for having denied thee; thou dost exist, thou art indeed man's father in heaven, and his judge on earth.
Count of Monte Cristo
In black distress, I called
my God, When I could scarce believe him mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints -- No more the whale did me confine.
Moby Dick I LXVII
and would'st be thought
my God; And storm'st, refused, thinking to terrify Me to thy will!
Paradise Regained
This prayer, says the author of Hebrews, was offered up "with loud cries and tears." Further, Jesus' cry from the cross, "
My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:36) takes up the desperate cry of abandonment from a sufferer out of the past.
The elusive presence: Jeremiah 20:4-11
A professional soldier, General Boykin had taken up with a small group called the Faith Force Multiplier whose members apply military principles to evangelism with a manifesto summoning warriors "to the spiritual warfare for souls." After Boykin had led Americans in a battle against a Somalian warlord he announced, "I know
my God was bigger than his.
9/11 and god's sport
First, Jesus laments--"
My God,
my God, why have you abandoned me?" Lament doesn't try to explain away suffering but admits it is a mystery.
For us and for our salvation? Mel Gibson's The Passion graphically portrayed Christ's death--and perfectly illustrated the traditional doctrine of atonement. But if God uses torture to save, what does that say to victims of violence, and what does it say about God?
"
My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?" (15:34) "My" Son; "my" God.
Preaching the mysteries of the reign of God
It may be that the future of
my God relationship isn't very bright -- that remains to be seen.
The Violence of God: Dialogic Fragments
We can just imagine Mary's thoughts: "Oh,
my God, what is he up to now!
Listening with the ear of the heart
And what about Christ's cry from the crossess, "
My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me" (Mark 15:34)?
Does God give you more suffering than you can bear?
A pastor friend of mine preached a Good Friday sermon a couple of years ago that focused on Jesus' words from the cross as recorded in Mark, "
My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?" This pastor lifted up those people in the world today who may say the very same words: those stricken with poverty in Africa, those living with terminal illnesses, those living in fear or loneliness.
Good Friday April 9, 2004
"What then do I love when I love
my God?" I love this question because it assumes that, of course, one loves God.
Postmodernism and the desire for God: an e-mail exchange
Imagine the excitement of Mary's "Rabbunni!" as she recognizes the risen Jesus in the person she thought was the gardener and in the "My Lord and
my God" in the formerly doubting, now believing Thomas.
Wow!
The first article in the Creed, according to Luther's Large Catechism, answers the question, "What kind of a god have you?" A child could answer: "First,
my God is the Father, who made heaven and earth.
Recatechizing the confirmed for evangelizing