When in the Hour of Deepest Need

When in the Hour of Deepest Need

LSB #615

v. 1: When in the hour of deepest need
We know not where to look for aid;
When days and nights of anxious thought
No help or counsel yet have brought.

v. 2: Then is our comfort this alone
That we may meet before Your throne;
To You, O faithful God, we cry
For rescue in our misery.

These verses sound appropriate for what our nation and world are going through right now with the coronavirus, don’t they? Yet this hymn isn’t talking about any illness, but the virus of sin that we all have. And the virus of sin has a 100% mortality rate. If you have it, you will die. This Lenten season began by reminding us of that fact, telling us that dust you are, and to dust you will return. But that doesn’t mean we have no hope! On the contrary, there is a cure that is also 100% effective: the forgiveness of our sin by the blood of Jesus shed on the cross for us. So we come before God, confess our sin, and receive His healing absolution and His Body and Blood in Holy Communion. With these we can be confident and sure we will live! And not just now, but forever. This is our deepest need. And our Lord responds with His great rescue.