Lamentations 3:22
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When our medical machines can no longer keep us alive or solve our problems we ask --- Why God!!!!
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When we keep our taxes low and our profits based on a short-term focus while our societal safety net crumbles we ask ---- Where is God?
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When we invest in pleasure and self-indulgence only thinking of ourselves and not others in our world by the burning of forest, global warming, unsafe environmental practices and our lifestyle implodes we ask --- Who is God?
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When business lay low-income workers off and give bonuses to management based on those decisions – We wonder about justice?
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When our government official’s former companies make billions from a war that they promote while our children are killed and maimed in that war which was uncertain to begin with -- It angers us.
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When we continue to eat, live, and act unhealthy and find ourselves dying from diseases and causes that are related to the way we have lived, eaten, and acted. We want God to fix our problems. When He doesn’t we say it is God’s will.
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When and oil company Exec makes $ 50 million in salary and bonuses a year and responds to a questions about the price of gas by saying he is only charging what the “free Market” will bear and that it is his “right” to make a profit, we have to wonder where profit becomes greed. We ask does only that which is limited have value?
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Leader: When a society can produce financial crisis’s such as the junk bond collapse, the saving and loan bailout, the disintegration of the tech stock market, the real estate balloon burst and foreclosure, Enron’s debacle, the Bears and Sterns implosion and still believe to not be motivated by self centered desires – We wonder when God?
Response: But the steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases.
Rev. David Johnson
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