Dear Friends in Christ,
As protestors storm the U.S. Capitol building, breaching police lines and barriers during the orderly debate inside, we ask that we all pause where we are and pray for our nation; for all our leaders; for all seeking to maintain order and safety at the Capitol, in Washington and in our country; and for a peaceful resolution to the crisis.
On this day of the Epiphany, we recognize that the Child visited by the magi is the King of kings and Lord of lords in all the earth, and to him belongs our ultimate allegiance. He is our God, who “is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble.”
We invite you as you pray to meditate on the words of Psalm 46:
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved;
God will help it when the morning dawns.
The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Come, behold the works of the Lord;
see what desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth.”
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Let us trust in our sovereign God who entered our tumultuous and struggling world in Christ and is with us still.
In Christ’s Service,
Dan Saperstein Ted McCulloch
Executive Presbyter Stated Clerk
Presbytery of Lake Huron Presbytery of Lake Huron
