Good Friday Prayer
God, look with mercy on this world.
With Jesus we have said, “O God, my God! Why would you ever leave us?”
This year has seen a global pandemic,
violence against black lives,
violence against women’s bodies,
violence against your creation.
Wildfires, floods, disasters, extinctions ever on the rise.
And in Your silence, in Your distance, in Your absence,
We hold the death of Jesus close to our hearts.
Because he cried out with us, “O God, my God! Why would you ever leave us?”
He was God in the suffering, crying out to God from the suffering.
As it says in the Psalm of lament which He prayed from the cross, You remain holy, You are still our praise, You are the trust of our ancestors who cried out to you, and were saved.
Often it is by faith, and not by sight, that we hope in those truths
O God, look with mercy on this world which Jesus chose to suffer for. Which Jesus chose to suffer with.
Amen.
