Today's reading from the book of Wisdom explains to us how
the wicked often lie in wait for the righteous one, wanting to destroy him
because he is inconvenient and opposes their actions, how the righteous
recognize the sins of the wicked, how this threatens them. These are the forces of darkness
that were at work in the world described by the book of Wisdom, the forces of
darkness that tried to destroy Jesus in our Gospel reading, the forces that
tried to entrap him wherever he traveled in his ministry in ancient Israel.
But our psalmist assures us today:
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted – he confronts the evildoers – he hears
the just cry out to him. We might look out at our world today
and see a lot to cry out about. We see acts of violence in our
community, acts of terrorism in the world, people attacking others with their
words and their actions. Perhaps we are broken hearted at
seeing all that is going on in our world, in the struggles we are enduring in
our own lives, for our inability to let go of things that have happened in our
lives in the past. Let us remember that in the middle
of our Lenten journey, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and the crushed
in spirit. Let us feel the Lord mercy and
compassion with us. And let us in turn be the presence
of healing, the presence of the Gospel values, in a world that is so
desperately in need of them.
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