Today's readings are Psalm 1, Numbers 24.1-25, and Luke 23.1-25.
Very often the Psalm reading appointed for a day has a reflective quality, a way of stepping back and looking at what we are reading in our other passages. It is very much so today. Who is the blessed man but one who trusts in the Lord? No matter what the Balaks of this world do, no matter what Pilate, Herod, and the execution squad do to us, we can look to our Lord in faith and trust, knowing that he is able to keep us in perfect peace and safety, even in and through the time of death. Our Lord has delivered us, though he did not deliver himself. May he grant us faith to look to him rather than to ourselves in the day of trouble.
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