Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - May 13, 2024
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from you.”
Trust in God, another word for faith in much of Scripture, is not based on any extraordinary knowledge we have of God's mind. Trust is based on what we know of the life and message of Jesus and, above all, that God raised him from the dead.
God's love for us, and our faith and hope in God, are justified in Jesus who shows us how total is God's love. God intends, Jesus tells us, to do the same for us: rescue us from suffering, disappointment, and death.
In the midst of his terrible suffering, the loss of family and everything he and his family owned, Job retains a similar trust in God. He says, “I know that my Vindicator lives” (Job 19:25). The words in an older translation are set to moving music by Handel in the Messiah: “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”
Living before Jesus, Job had no such vivid picture as we have of God's love for us but still, based on what God had done for his people over the centuries, Job was able to say that he trusted God to deliver him.
In the Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, we are close to God's love and mercy in the presence of Christ in the bread and wine, in God's word and in each other. “I know that my Vindicator, my Redeemer lives.”
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
