“Blessed are they who hope in the Lord” – this is the refrain we hear in the psalm today. The message in the psalm is to bring us hope, as we as Christ's disciples are to place our hope in our faith, in the salvation we have in him. The psalm states that we are blessed if we do not follow the advice of the wicked, if we do not walk in the way of sinners. We are blessed if we follow the laws of the Lord.
Yet, even if we place our hope in the Lord, we are held accountable and responsible as Christ's disciples as well. Paul tells the Romans that while before they were slaves to impurity and lawlessness, now they are to live in righteousness as Christ's disciples. Sometimes in what we are going through in our daily lives, it came be difficult to have hope. Yet, our readings challenge us today in our faith. When I was a missionary in Ecuador, I remember meeting nuns who had served in difficult situations in remote mission sites, serving the people at those mission sites their entire adult lives. They had to meet many challenges in their service to the Church, but they always did so with joy and gladness in their hearts no matter how difficult things seemed. They put their hope in the Lord. May we do the same.
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