A Lost Prayer

Authors

Jaron Melin, Concordia Seminary, St. LouisFollow

Document Type

Literary

Keywords

prayer, jewish

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

What can we learn about prayer from a Jew who survived the Holocaust? Even though we face horrors, tragedies, and trials, prayer is part of who we are even when we don’t know why we do it. We also get an existential view of looking at the hidden God in the midst of atrocity. Finally, we see an example of a modern-day lament to God about cruel injustice. So then, we can bring our laments to God about injustice even today. As Christians, we can respond to this lament by saying, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus!”

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

People in this Resource (separated by commas)

Elie Wiesel

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Melin, Jaron (2018) "A Lost Prayer," Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol1/iss1/9