Bible, appear to us as sinners. They were frail, this frailty
conquered them, they had no strength to resist the impulses of their
bodies and of their souls, of the complex passions of men. And yet —
and yet, they believed in God passionately. One of them was David, and
one of his Psalms expresses it so well: "From the deep I cry unto Thee
.." From the depths of despair, of shame, from the depths of his fall,
from the depths of his alienation from God, from the darkest depths of
his soul he still cried to God. He does not hide from Him, he does not
go away from Him, it is to Him he comes with this desperate cry of a
desperate man. And others, men and women have this same concreteness
as, for instance, Rahab the harlot — and so many more.
Do we, when we are at the darkest point of life, when we are wrapped
in all the darkness that is within us — do we, from within this
darkness turn to God and say: It is to You, oh Lord, I cry! Yes — I am
in darkness, but You are my God. You are the God who created the
light, and the darkness, and You are within the darkness as You are
within the blinding light; You are in death as You are in life; You
are in hell, as You are on the Throne; and from wherever I am I can
cry to You.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
The Genealogy of Christ
03-01-1988
