You are our light and our salvation.
You not only open our eyes but you penetrate every obstacle that keeps us from seeing the light. You bring prisoners out from confinement. You bring us out of the dungeons in our lives that keep us from the light.
We need your light! We are smoldering wicks on our own, not doing much good for ourselves or the world. Yet even in your infinitely greater light you do not quench us. You bring us out so that we can join you in shining. You do not quench us but make us lights for the world (cf. Mat. 5:14).
You shatter the prisons that hold us. But we need not fear the walls as they collapse around us! Even if we are our bruised reed you bring us out to safety.
We get so used to the darkness. We get so comfortable in our prisons and dungeons. We begin doubt that there is supposed to be more than this. We are blind but forget that we are meant to see.
Jesus, you do not my forget. You have a plan for us and you will not let us sit in darkness any longer. This is the fullness of time. This is the day of salvation. You have a plan since the first moments when you "created the heavens and stretched them out" and you never forgot it. You gave us breath and never forgot why. It is time for the victory of justice.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
Fear? Yes, fear. We are afraid. We get so used to it that we almost don't notice how so much of what drives us is fear. We are caught up in the need to preserve and protect ourselves. We become like Judas. Even our almsgiving becomes tainted and selfish.
He said this not because he cared about the poor
but because he was a thief and held the money bag
and used to steal the contributions.
As we taste the light of your freedom we become like Mary. Our hearts become filled with love and devotion for you.
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil
made from genuine aromatic nard
and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;
In your light fear has no place. With fear gone we are free to pour ourselves out just like this genuine aromatic nard of Mary. In our devotion we can think of no better use for our hair than to simply dry your feet.
the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Let us fill the house of the Church and even the world with this fragrance!
Evildoers do come at us to devour us. Principalities and powers really don't want us to give ourselves to Jesus so completely. But in your light we are not quenched and we are not broken. In your light we they cannot stop us.
When evildoers come at me
to devour my flesh,
My foes and my enemies
themselves stumble and fall.
In your light we see light (cf. Psa. 36:9). Even when we do see darkness teach us to wait for the light to dawn with steadfast trust in you. Even when the darkness has its hour this Friday and the sun's light is hidden teach us to trust yo with stout hearts. At this darkest moment in all of human history salvation is not far off!
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
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