The 'breath of life from God entered them'
“Sing a new song to the Lord; and with a ten stringed lyre to chant his praise"
INTRO: Rather than contemplating the possibilities of a sorrowful or tragic end we would be better served by trusting our God “My mercy and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, My shield, in whom I trust”
And then, as we set aside those phantasms called worry, we will be in a better position to “Sing a new song to the Lord; and with a ten stringed lyre to chant his praise.”
I’ve got this!
Saturday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Revelation 11:4-12
Luke 20:27-40
Worry is more common than we might suspect. If I made a complete written list of potentially worrisome issues no library would have room for it. Worry about rewards. Worry about punishment. Worry about the past, the present and the future - sometimes all three at once. Worry about the weather. Worry about elections. Worry about the dead, the living and the dying. Worry about the present life. Worry about the next life. Worry about angels dancing on pin heads. Worry about wives in heaven. Mostly we worry about trivial things.
Image by Engin Akyurt
John’s two witnesses may have worried even though they had formidable weapons. We might even debate whether or not such worry would have been appropriate to them considering that they were eventually killed. The Sadducees clearly worried. One wife with seven husbands should cause any involved to worry. But even in these two extreme cases we find worry to be a waste of time. Why? Because in both cases the Lord demonstrates: “I’ve got this!”
So, rather than waste time on worry, we would better be served by remembering the weapons of the two witnesses, weapons provided by
“The Lord, my Rock! Who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.”
Rather than trying to anticipate the future we would be better served by remembering that, for the two witnesses, the “breath of life from God entered them.”
Rather than contemplating the possibilities of a sorrowful or tragic end we would be better served by trusting our God “My mercy and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, My shield, in whom I trust”
And then, as we set aside those phantasms called worry, we will be in a better position to “Sing a new song to the Lord; and with a ten stringed lyre to chant his praise.”
I’ve got this!