17 May 2021 - scatterbrained

Today's Readings

(Audio)

Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived

when each of you will be scattered to his own home

and you will leave me alone.

What amazing love Jesus shows his disciples, even in anticipation of their lack of faith and their varying degrees of betrayal. The same is true of us. Jesus anticipated every wrong thing we would ever do and still loved us enough to go to the cross.

Do you believe now?

We would prefer if our beliefs were strong enough that we could skip past infidelity to faithfulness. What is it about us that makes only able to learn some lessons the hard way? We see the love of Jesus for his disciples and for us, we believe what he tells us about himself, and yet we do not respond proportionately to those facts. We often let circumstances dictate our actions, as fear and disordered desires conspire to scatter us and draw us away.

But I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I have told you this so that you might have peace in me.

A partially correct interpretation of this passage is that Jesus knew what his disciples would do in advance and so they could be assured of his forgiveness when they returned from being scattered. But Jesus was speaking about something that should matter to us whether we are recovering from infidelity or not. He was showing us a perspective, which, if internalized, could prevent the need for us to ever wander in the first place.

In the world you will have trouble,

but take courage, I have conquered the world.

We allow ourselves to be scattered because we feel alone to begin with. Jesus was never pulled from the Father's plan because he knew he was never alone. He knew the reality of the Father to which he was connected was a deeper and more real one than the reality of the trouble of the world.

Jesus did not say, 'I will conquer the world', as we might expect, referring to his Paschal mystery. Although there was a sense in which his victory really was still future tense his connection to the Father was so strong that he could speak of it as already his own, and so he said "I have conquered".

Just as Jesus had peace in the Father, because he knew he was not alone, so too can we find a peace in our relationship with Jesus that the world can't take away.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you (see John 14:27).

There is a real sense in which circumstances continually collude to produce new and genuinely difficult forms of trouble for us. In response to these our victory is still a future tense reality. But if we stay near to Jesus we can be victorious even now.

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne (see Revelation 3:21).

Unlike the disciples Paul found in Ephesus we did receive the Holy Spirit when we became believers. Yet, like them, he may not have had much impact on our lives yet. We may still be fearful like the disciples before Pentecost, still unaware of the gifts and mission we have been given. Compared to what he intends to give us this is true of everyone.

And when Paul laid his hands on them,

the Holy Spirit came upon them,

and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

Altogether there were about twelve men.

The Holy Spirit is meant to make a profound difference in our lives. He has so much he wants to offer us that even Charismatic all stars could so benefit from opening their hearts to him, as though for the first time, that it might seem to them after that they had hardly known him until that moment. 

Whenever the Spirit intervenes, he leaves people astonished. He brings about events of amazing newness; he radically changes persons and history.

- St. John Paul the Great

Jesus spoke of peace in the Gospel reading today. How is our peace? Is it incrementally better than those who don't know Jesus at all? Or is it a peace that the world cannot give, to which the peace of the world cannot compare? Speaking for myself alone, my peace is often more of the incremental sort. But peace is just one gift that the Spirit of Jesus wants to give us. Fear is just one part of the fallen world that he has conquered, peace just one fruit of his victory which he desires to be ours.

I have told you this so that you might have peace in me.

In the world you will have trouble,

but take courage, I have conquered the world.

Rend Collective - More Than Conquerors

Hillsong Worship - This Is How We Overcome

16 May 2021 - the Ascent of faith

Today's Readings

(Ascension Sunday)

(Audio)

So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them,

was taken up into heaven

and took his seat at the right hand of God.

Today Jesus is enthroned in heaven. He is revealed to be the great king of the house of David whose kingdom shall truly have no end (see Luke 1:33). Jesus does not leave as though to retire from a work completed. Rather, he ascends to begin his reign.

“Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

The Apostles were still expecting the Messiah to inaugurate an earthly kingdom and to throw off the yoke of their Roman oppressors. Jesus did not exactly contradict them, saying:

He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons

The Apostles knew Jesus was victorious over the plans of his enemies, even over death itself. He seemed positioned by that victory to step in and claim an earthly kingship if that was his plan. But instead, by his Ascension he began to reign in heaven, which was something even greater, fulfilling the Messianic promises in a way that exceeded all expectations. What did this mean for the earthly kingdom still in the grip of Rome, still, for that matter, the grip of sin?

The heavenly enthronement of Jesus did not immediately change the political reality of the world. But it did not leave the world unchanged. The Church was henceforth  identified with the heavenly kingdom ruled by Christ. It was filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit so as to exercise on earth authority over the true opposition to human flourishing, to reign over the principalities and powers and world rulers of this present darkness.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (see Ephesians 6:12).

The angel about whom we read in the beginning of Acts helps us to summarize the attitude we should have following the Ascension.

Men of Galilee,

why are you standing there looking at the sky?

The temptation for the Apostles and for us seems to be gazing off wistfully at the horizon, ignoring the world, waiting for Jesus to come and do everything with no involvement on our part. But this misses a key point of the Ascension.

and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (see Ephesians 2:6).

The Ascension of Jesus does not mean that he is less accessible, that his power is less present, or that his reign is less real. Rather, united with Jesus we ourselves become a royal priesthood (see First Peter 2:9). We as the body are so united to the head that we also share in his reign. This mean the now is not a season of waiting so much as it is reigning with him.

And he put all things beneath his feet

and gave him as head over all things to the church,

which is his body,

the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.

Just as the Davidic king was anointed with oil so too are we anointed for this kingship in which we are all called to participate. This anointing is the Holy Spirit. As Jesus is enthroned today we are called to look toward Pentecost and to see it as a share in his own kingly anointing.

While meeting with them,

he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,

but to wait for “the promise of the Father

about which you have heard me speak;

for John baptized with water,

but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Many of us are still staring up at the sky, not realizing that we are called to make the very kingdom over which Jesus now reigns from heaven manifest on the earth. The King shares with us the fruits of his victory over sin and death so that we, each in our own way, can make Jesus himself present to the world.

And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets,

others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers,

to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry,

for building up the body of Christ,

It is not just the reign of Jesus that begins on the Ascension, it is our own as well. Let us stop looking up at the sky and start looking forward toward the the kingly anointing and royal mission in which Pentecost promises us a share.

You Shall Be Clothed With Power

Songs In His Presence - Psalm 47

15 May 2021 - that your joy may be full

Today's Readings

(Audio)

Amen, amen, I say to you,

whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Until now you have not asked anything in my name;

ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

Though it is a gift, Christian joy isn't quite automatic. We are meant to ask and keep asking, to seek and keep seeking, to knock and keep knocking at the door of prayer (see Matthew 7:7), which is the door to the heart of the Father. We are meant to believe that the Father desires to give good gifts to his children (see Luke 11:13), that he desires to give justice to his elect who cry out to him day and night (see Luke 18:7).

In response what Jesus said and what we know about the Father's heart isn't our own response of prayer paltry and timid? We are like Ahaz who, having been told to ask, responded saying, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test." Many of us have our own human system of prayer that isn't very much like the one enjoined on us by Jesus. We have a wish list, and we send them off as though we were writing to a politician, with little hope of an answer.

True prayer is meant to be powerful. The reason we are often reluctant to embrace confidence in such prayer is because of past perceived disappointment. 

Perhaps we are like the man by the pool of Bethesda who been trying for a healing so long that he no longer could no longer hope, no longer even say aloud that he wanted to be healed. Such disappointment only grows more difficult with time. But perhaps our situation is more like his than we realized. Perhaps our past prayers were not made with the faith in the name of Jesus who actually had the power to grant them. We are meant to invoke the name of Jesus in our prayer in such a way that we really believe that all things are possible to him, that no request is beyond him, and that if what we ask if for our good he will give it to us, even if mountains must be moved for him to do so. This is what Jesus meant when he said to ask in his name, not merely that we should use it as a formula, nor even simply an intellectual direction, but from a posture of relationship and faith.

Many of us believe that we should not pray for for ourselves. We are willing to ask for others, because we know we should. But we somehow perceive prayers for ourselves as selfish. Some prayers certainly are, but many are not. We are meant to love others as we love ourselves, and if we are unwilling to have that basis of legitimate self care then our love for others is going to be hollow as well. In addition, there may even be deeper reasons for this tendency. We might have a subconscious belief that we are somehow unique, that God may care about others, but not ourselves. If this is true, let us hear Jesus telling us to ask so that our joy may be complete. Let us believe him when he tells us that the Father himself loves us, each, individually.

Another reason our prayers have become timid is because we tend to ask a few times and then give up. We insist on our own timelines in judging the effectiveness of our prayers. Perhaps we start quite zealous, sensing that our desire is pleasing to God and that he may well want to grant it, but then don't receive it that day, or that week, or that year. How quickly does our zeal flag in such cases? God's timing is never our own, and seldom what we would prefer at first. It is usually only evident to us in hindsight that any apparent delays are part of a more perfect plan. We are called to a faith that is undiminished by apparent delays.

Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay (see Second Peter 3:8-9).

ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

If we are content with a weak prayer life we must also be content with an incomplete joy. But this is not what Jesus intends for us. We are meant to have a posture of expectant faith that is so great that no circumstance can challenge it, that believes that the fulfillment of all his promises might be just around the corner, that it may indeed come at any moment. The joy of the life of prayer Jesus wants for us as a joy that sees all the promises as already our own even while they are still on the way. To receive this joy we must ask in his name.

Our joy is not just for ourselves. It is one of our best tools as witnesses. The world may not readily accept the syllogisms of Thomas Aquinas as proofs of God. But when they see Christians continuing to live lives of love, joy. and forgiveness in difficult circumstances, this is harder to dismiss. It was for this reason that the very presence of Paul in the communities to which he traveled brought "strength to all the disciples." This is not that joy was a replacement for words in the those early communities, as we see with Apollos.

He vigorously refuted the Jews in public,

establishing from the Scriptures that the Christ is Jesus.

But without joy our words just won't be credible, for our words themselves insist that joy should be something that defines us.

All you peoples, clap your hands;

    shout to God with cries of gladness.

For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,

    is the great king over all the earth.

Rend Collective - Joy

14 May 2021 - love, joy, and commandments

Saint Matthias

Today's Readings
(Audio)

I have told you this so that my joy might be in you

and your joy might be complete.

There is a perniciously persistent Kantian reading of ethics which suggests that if we in enjoy or get anything out of our attempts at moral action then those actions are by that very fact spoiled and rendered not praiseworthy. In this reading, only duty for duty's sake fulfills the criteria of true virtue.

Happily, Jesus didn't take a Kantian view. The closest natural parallel was Aristotle's idea of eudaimonia, where virtue is ordered toward human flourishing and happiness. For Aristotle, the life of virtue was seen to be correct because it, unlike the pursuit of pleasure, power, or wealth, could actually result in making people happy and societies prosperous. But Jesus transcended Aristotle both in what he asked of his disciples and in what he promised them in return.

This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.

No one has greater love than this,

to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

It is easy to read a Kantian perspective on the call to embrace the cross. But this was not the perspective of Jesus. He endured his own cross "for the joy set before him" (see Hebrews 12:2) and encouraged his followers to keep even this most difficult of commandments because, in doing so, they would be open to receiving the fullness of his joy.

Keeping the commandments is sometimes unpleasant at the time. Discipline is not usually welcome when first received. But the difficulty involved is accepted, not for its own sake, but for the sake of the fruit it yields (see Hebrews 12:11). We keep the commandments not as dour stoics committed to the idea that religion should feel bad, but as those convinced the commandments are the pathway to joy. In fact, they are the only pathway to that destination. It is therefore the opposite of Puritanism according to this definition:

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

- H.L. Mencken

We are now in a position to see why Jesus said knowing what our master is doing makes the difference for us between slavery and friendship with God. When we don't realize that everything is ordered for our good, for human flourishing, we can only obey out of fear and obligation, and from a problematic sense that we are doing something that God needs rather than something we need. But now Jesus has told us the meaning of the cross, what the master is doing through this difficult to understand plan of his. Though we are his friends we are not thereby excused from carrying of our crosses. But the context in which we do so is now entirely changed. It becomes of privilege, an unearned favor granted to us by our friend, who first demonstrated and made possible the process of transformation to which all are now called.

I have called you friends,

because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.

Christians are called to carry the cross, not out of self-hatred, nor even primarily out of duty, but out of the hope for the joy that is set before us. We were not by nature free to choose this way on our own. Our hope was insufficient to the task, for the task was supernatural. But we were chosen for it by Jesus, empowered by him, and it is his own joy that awaits us. This is a joy that is not meant to be only in heaven. It is one which increases as we grow nearer to him and as the fruit he called us to bear becomes more of a reality in our lives.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (see Galatians 5:22-23).

The hope that will actually empower humans to embrace the transformation from self-centered, pitiable, unhappy creatures into those who love as Jesus loved and have his joy within them is a hope that comes from the resurrection. It is deepened by many little deaths and resurrections in our daily lives. As we are transformed by this hope we too become witnesses to the power of the resurrection, witnesses to hope.

Therefore, it is necessary that one of the men 

who accompanied us the whole time 

the Lord Jesus came and went among us,

beginning from the baptism of John

until the day on which he was taken up from us,

become with us a witness to his resurrection.

Sarah Emerson - What Joy

Newsboys - Joy

Matt Maher - I Rejoice

Share your own favorite songs about joy in the comments.

13 May 2021 - a little while

Today's Readings 

Readings from Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter

(Audio)

A little while and you will no longer see me,

and again a little while later and you will see me.

The absence of Jesus is only ever for a little while in the big picture of eternity. Just as his three days in death were a fractional part of his earthly life so is the time between his ascension and second coming not even comparable to the age when we will see him again for all eternity.

“What does this mean that he is saying to us,

‘A little while and you will not see me,

and again a little while and you will see me,’

and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks?

We do not know what he means.” 

The disciples didn't like the idea that Jesus would be taken from them even for a little while. It bothered them enough that they couldn't help discussing it with one another, but worried them enough that they couldn't ask Jesus to explain what his saying meant. 

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him

Jesus knew that the disciples were distressed about the saying, that they both did and didn't want to know what he meant. Even if they could not bring themselves to ask, nevertheless, Jesus wanted them to understand. It was important that he plant this seed of understanding so that when they experienced this 'little while', even though it shook them to the core, and scattered them away from him and each other, they would nevertheless not abandon hope. 

Amen, amen, I say to you,

you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices;

you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.”

We all experience these periods, this 'little while' during which our vision of Jesus is obscured. In our case, it is not his absence that causes this, since he promised to remain with his Church forever (see Matthew 28:20) But it is a normal part of our own spiritual growth to go through times of dryness or desolation when we can't rely on the consolations of experience in the same way. When we encounter such challenges we too must remember the promise of Jesus so that we don't lose hope. The Lord can make even dryness and desolation work for our good, refining and perfecting our love. But this only happens when we persevere, which is something that only our hope makes possible. 

When we can't see Jesus clearly let us trust that he is still present, still, as ever, in his Father's house. We can and should continue to seek his presence just as Mary sought her Son (see Luke 2:41-52). We can face his absence in the same way that Jesus faced the challenge of the cross on the way to his Father's presence.

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God (see Hebrews 12:2).

Even when we can't see Jesus clearly we need the hope that enables us to continue to search out his presence. This becomes a concrete necessity because circumstances often make his activity in our midst hard to recognize.

When they opposed him and reviled him,

he shook out his garments and said to them,

But like Paul, if we don't find him in one place, we can look in another until we discover him once more, probably with an even greater solidity to the reality of his presence.

So he left there and went to a house

belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God;

his house was next to a synagogue.

Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord

along with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians

who heard believed and were baptized. 

Matt Maher - The Spirit and the Bride

12 May 2021 - to all truth

Today's Readings

(Audio)

But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,

he will guide you to all truth.

In a special way the Holy Spirit guides the Church to all truth, for the Church is the pillar and foundation of truth (see First Timothy 3:15). But it is also true that he guides individuals. Those on whom the anointing of the Spirit rests are taught about "everything" so that they have "no need that anyone should teach" them (see First John 2:27). These might at first seemed to be opposed but are actually synergistic. 

It is within the Church, because it is animated by the Spirit of truth, that the anointing teaches us as individuals. Jesus told us his disciples call no one teacher for we have one Teacher (see Matthew 23:8). When John says we have no need of teachers he means to assure us that we have no need to turn to teachers other than the one Teacher, to resources other than the resources given to us by God. We don't need to turn to outside resources, to the latest scholarship, to the most refined philosophy, in order to understand what is essential. Those things can be helpful, but it is a relationship that is meant to be primary. We have a Teacher who speaks to us through Scripture and Tradition, interpreted by the Magisterium, guided by the Spirit. If we are willing to be open and to listen we don't need to be afraid that we might miss something that we need to understand because we aren't sufficiently clever. It is rather that God gives wisdom to the simple (see Psalm 19:7).

I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.

The Spirit guided the Church into an ever deeper and more complete understanding of the revealed mysteries of Christianity. Just as the Spirit was patient then so too is he patient with us as he helps us to grow. This is frequently a process of setting aside our pretensions and becoming more and more like little children, ready to be taught. He will even guide philosophers as they pursue their syllogisms, and there is a place for this as well, though the higher they reach the more they need to be intentional about simplicity and humility in their work. But the main thing the Spirit is trying to convey are not abstract truths, but the words of Jesus himself. 

He will glorify me,

because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.

It is when we are guided by the Spirit that we can have confidence about the future that we might otherwise think fitting only for naive children. He will assure us of the solidity of the Father's plan and the steadfastness of his promises. He will speak of things that are coming. He does that so that we can respond appropriately, yes, but especially so that we can trust that the future is ultimately in the hands of God.

The Athenians to whom Paul preached seemed to be a complicated people. They were interested in abstractions of philosophy. The would prefer to listen to many teachers about many things rather settling on definitive answers (and are in that sense very modern). Even when they were interested they would say things like, "We should like to hear you on this some other time." It was to this audience that Paul preached, conveying the teachings of the Jesus, but adapting his message to the individuals to whom he spoke. He showed how the Athenians had indeed stumbled upon legitimate truth but needed to be willing to receive the completion of that truth. The Spirit speaking through Paul, though he made appeal to the seeds of the Word that were found in Athenians, would could only be received by those willing to become like children, to lay down their pretense, to accept something which might seem worthy of derision from the perspective of academics and intellectuals. 

God has overlooked the times of ignorance,

but now he demands that all people everywhere repent

because he has established a day on which he will ‘judge the world

with justice’ through a man he has appointed,

and he has provided confirmation for all

by raising him from the dead.”

The Spirit would help the humble to discover that such truth was not simply interesting, nor even just likely, but certain with the same certainty that a child knows that she is loved by her parents. But he could not do this in the lives of those who scoffed because of their pridefulness. 

The invitation today is to become more simple and childlike, not caught up in worldly wisdom, so that the Spirit can guide us into the fullness of truth, because it is the truth that sets us free (see John 8:32).

Let the kings of the earth and all peoples,

    the princes and all the judges of the earth,

Young men too, and maidens,

    old men and boys.

Songs In His Presence - Psalm 19

11 May 2021 - negativity bias

Today's Readings

(Audio)

But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.

Jesus had explained to the disciples that he went to prepare a place for them, to himself be the way by which they would come to the Father. But he also warned them of tribulations that were to come, tribulations during which he would not be present with them in the same way as he was then. 

and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

In their response to Jesus the disciples exhibited negativity bias. The truth that Jesus revealed the Father, that he went to prepare a place for them, that he himself was the way and the truth and the life, this was all abstract and easy to ignore. The hostility of the religious authorities was already a reality and the prediction of more challenging times to come easily dominated their attention.

But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.

The disciples had to struggle with what all generations ever since have in turn had to face. How could it be better for Jesus to go? In the face of a world with so much darkness, how could we be expected to face it without the physical presence of the light of the world? Many people still assume that if Jesus were real we would not have to contend with his absence in this way, especially in the face of all of the evil that is incontestably present in the world.

But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go.

Jesus explained why he would not always be present to the disciples as he was then, that it was a part of his perfect plan, that it was, in fact, somehow better than him simply remaining with them as he was.

For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you.

But if I go, I will send him to you.

Christianity only makes sense if we take seriously the promise of Pentecost. Jesus said that it was better that he go precisely so that we could receive the promise of the Holy Spirit. Jesus present to the disciples teaching and working miracles was doubtlessly a great blessing. But in that mode he was confined by the limits of space and time. He remained in some sense external to his followers.

The coming of the Holy Spirit allowed the power of Jesus to reach the whole world through his Body, the Church, of which the Holy Spirit is the animating principle, bestowing gifts hierarchical, sacramental, and charismatic. Each member of that body could now experience Jesus living within her. Jesus was no longer merely close at hand, but rather began to speak to and transform believers from the inside. 

And when he comes he will convict the world

Because Jesus chose to fill us with his Spirit and to make his home in us in the way he did he empowered us to overcome the limits that normally apply to our ability to know the truth. In him we could come to understand that our inherent negativity bias is a lie, no matter how the circumstances appear, knowing that the ruler of this present darkness has been condemned. 

in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation

Within our hearts the Spirit wants to reveal Jesus as the righteous one, but in a way that is not merely abstract or intellectual. The conviction he accomplishes in us can be faith strong enough to change our lives.

Only the presence of the Spirit in the hearts of Paul and Silas could explain how they responded when they were imprisoned. Rather than letting grief fill their hearts they prayed and praised God in such a way that the very earth shook.

About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying

and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,

there was suddenly such a severe earthquake

that the foundations of the jail shook;

It takes much less than imprisonment for most of us to fixate on the negative, to make our prayers desperate and doubtful, and to silence our praise. In the event that we do receive a miracle we often rush as far from the problematic circumstances as we can get. Even when we're free from the circumstances we aren't really victorious over them. Not so for Paul and Silas.

But Paul shouted out in a loud voice,

“Do no harm to yourself; we are all here.”

It is natural on a human level to fixate on darkness and the shadow of death. It is, after all, all around us. The only way to be free from this deception is to believe in the truth, for only the truth sets us free (see John 8:32). 

“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus

and you and your household will be saved.”

Believing in Jesus means, among other things, believing that he will give us his Spirit. His Spirit makes it possible for the truth to transform us from within. Let us believe him when he tells us how important the Spirit is meant to be in the lives of believers, that he will be the consolation that makes sense of everything else we must face.

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,

    for you have heard the words of my mouth;

    in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;

I will worship at your holy temple,

    and give thanks to your name.

If there is any way in which we are in prison today let us ask the Holy Spirit to help us make it a prayer meeting, full of his consolation and strength.

Matt Maher - Every Little Prison

MercyMe - Shake