Guidance + Servanthood

GUIDANCE

"The rules of the Lord are clear, & righteous altogether." Psalm 19:9

"God's Word demonstrates that He did not want our journey to end in destruction. It reveals how we should live in response to what He did for us by sending His Son, our Savior, to defeat sin & show us the way to eternal life. Where He leads, we follow." [Psalms for Lent, Jane Wilke, Creative Communications for the Parish, 2018]

The Servant

"Behold the Servant, the delight of His Father, filled with the Spirit, headed to the cross. Behold Him as He sets to work, & be in awe. He is not noisy or threatening. He doesn't cry aloud or lift up His voice or make it heard in the street. There is about Him a quietness, a gentleness. A bruised reed He will not break. A faintly burning wick He will not quench. This is the justice He brings:  a tender, healing hand that works not to condemn you, but to save you, not to destroy you, but to heal you. And He continues His patient work all the way to the end--to the cross. Do you see & hear His silence before Pilate? He is faithful 'bringing forth' justice--the setting right of what has gone so utterly wrong. On the cross it was all against one, but that One was for us all. Faithfully & without fainting He walks the path of love 'to the end,' to the fulfillment, till He established this justice to the ends of the earth." ["Behold My Servant," William Weedon, The Lutheran Witness Feb. 2019]