IS 49:1-6
PS 71:1-2, 3-4A, 5AB-6AB, 15 AND 17
Bragging about the Lord being your guide in the first reading and the psalm, only to turn around with the gospel and have Peter denying Jesus, Judas betraying Him, Jesus telling the disciples exactly who was going to do it and having them still not understand...
Is this, then, the story of our faith? God is faithful, and when we feel we are with Him with feel invincible. We declare like Peter that we will follow Him anywhere. We bluster like the first reading that we will be safe while we follow Him.
He knows we won't. He knows we won't be safe from earthly terrors, and He asks us to go anyway. He knows we won't be faithful, that we will deny Him in so many ways that seem trivial to us in the moment and even betray Him in great matters. He loves us anyway. He guides us anyway.
Later, He will ask us three times if we love Him and tell us then to feed His sheep. Erase our denials with the chance to profess our love. Take our betrayals on His own back.
Listen to us go on and on about how God is our shepherd and we trust and we will follow Him always and we fear nothing that the world can do to us. Only to watch us give up His ways as we cower in terror of the world's attack.
He knows it will happen. And He loves us anyway.
What wondrous love is this, oh my soul.
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