Take Heart, Get Up--April 9, 2022

[From March 31, 2012 archive]

 

When our life is crushed to the ground,

and we sit in darkness like those long dead;

when the darkness is a darkness that can be felt;

 

then even though our outer nature is wasting away,

daily renew our inner nature; and we will not lose heart. 

Call us, as you called Bartimaeus, and we will come to you.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Exod. 10:21-11:8

2 Cor. 4:13-18

Mark 10:46-52

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 143:3

For the enemy has pursued me, 
          crushing my life to the ground, 
          making me sit in darkness like those long dead.

 

Exod. 10:21

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

 

2 Cor. 4:16

So we do not lose heart.  Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.

 

Mark 10:49

Jesus stood still and said, “Call him here.”  And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.”