The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from
this time on and for evermore (Psalm 121:8) This is part of the Scripture for
the psalm today in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. The description of the battle
between the Amorites and the Israelites in the text from Exodus highlights the
prayer of Moses with arms raised which brought fortune to the Israelites in
battle. The keeping of our coming and going by the Lord is not the conquering
of our free will by an eternal control freak. It is the faith and trust through
which will live the journey of life expecting God to be Present to us. This
expectation is developed through our study, perhaps in the ancient monastic
tradition of Lectio Divina, which Father Robin Gibbons reminds us brings Scripture
and prayer together. The Sacred Scriptures bring all of the benefits cited in
the Letter to Timothy to us as we journey with Jesus. The Gospel from Luke
presents one of the “speed bumps” which Father Larry Gillick SJ notes are
opportunities to slow down and become aware of the Presence of God in our
encounters with the people who may be offering us a different vision of the
path on which we are called to live today. Father Larry notes how easily we
seek presents from God and how often we may be missing the Presence which is in
our situation now. We thank God that he “keeps our going out and our coming in”.
We need to rejoice and be thankful when our path requires more patience and
persistence. In prayer, our attitude to changes to changes in circumstance, can
transform our impatience for Divine intervention to faith and trust that God is
leading us in Life.
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