Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Why have you forgotten me?” (Ps 42:9) This question comes to the lips of all Christians when everything stands against them, when all earthly hope has been shattered, when in the course of great world events they feel totally lost, when all of life’s goals seem unattainable, and everything appears pointless. Then, However, it depends where they direct this question: not to a dark fate but to the God who is and remains my Rock, the eternal Ground on which my life rests. When I fall into doubt, God remains solid as a rock. When I waver, God remains unshakable. When I become unfaithful, God remains faithful…To endure humiliation and to be mocked for the sake of the faith—that has been a distinction of the godly for centuries. It hurts body and soul that no day passes without the name of God being doubted and blasphemed. Where, then, is your God? I confess God before the world and before all enemies of God when in deepest need I believe in God’s goodness, when in guilt I believe in forgiveness, when in death I believe in life, when in defeat I believe in victory, when in desolation I believe in God’s gracious presence. Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world and how he is closest precisely when we believe him to be most distant”