[From July 27, 2010 archive;
adapted from my journal of Aug. 1, 2000]
You have delivered me from many troubles,
but I cannot say my eye has looked in triumph
on all my enemies—not on my selfishness or pride.
I am not wise in what is good, or guileless in what is evil.
I have not followed the way in which my ancestors walked—
who obeyed your commandments—or followed their examples.
Make me more like the one who
did look in triumph on his enemies,
even though he is the very one they
led captive to a place called Golgotha.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 54; 146; 28; 99
Judg. 2:1-5, 11-23
Rom. 16:17-27
Matt. 27:32-44
Selected Verses
Ps. 54:7
For he has delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
Judg. 2:17b
[The Israelites] soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD; they did not follow their example.
Rom. 16:19
For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I want you to be wise in what is good and guileless in what is evil.
Matt. 27:33-34
And when [the soldiers leading Jesus] came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
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