“The psalmist, knows that trust is not easy and must confront not only those who would deny it, the enemies as the psalmist calls them, but even our own weakness and struggle to endure. The trust that the psalmist knew in their youth, and which is maintained even at advanced age, is one that confronts enemies constantly, be they external or internal ones that attack us from within. This is the nature of the trust that was called for from both Jeremiah in his calling and Jesus in his. The past experience of that trust met by God’s presence is what sustains the psalmist to the end. The psalmist knows that only a life of praise of God can sustain.”
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Isaiah 49:1-6
Psalm 71
In you, O Lord, I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me and save me.
Be to me a rock of refuge,
a strong fortress, to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from my birth;
it was you who took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all day long,
though their number is past my knowledge.
O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
John 13:21-38
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