“Blessed are they who hope in the Lord” We hear this refrain in our psalm today. Some translations use the word “happy” instead of “blessed,” which makes sense in a way, because we indeed should feel happiness in our souls if we are in a state of blessings from the Lord. The message in the psalm today is to bring us a message of hope as well, as we as disciples of Christ and are thus to place our hope in our faith, in the salvation we have in Christ.
Yet, our readings today also hold us accountable and responsible as disciples of Christ as well. Paul tells in the 6th chapter in his letter to the Romans that before they were slaves to impurity and lawlessness, but now they are called to live in righteousness as disciples of Christ. 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. Probably many of us have gone through different times in our lives. Perhaps we have gotten through those difficult times only by the hope we have put in Christ. May we never forget that sense of hope.
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