Today's responsorial psalm, Psalm 139, opens with us acknowledging that God has "probed me and...[knows] me." We go on to pray: "O Lord,...you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know the whole of it. Behind me and before, you hem me in and rest your hand upon me."
God probes me! God knows what I am thinking.God knows what I am pondering. God knows my desires. God know what motivates me to do what I do or not do what I do not do. God knows me more than and better than I know myself. And yet God loves me beyond all telling! Why? Because God sees me as one redeemed in the blood of Christ. In Holy Communion, God visits me: "Take and eat," God said to the disciples at the Last Supper: "This is my body given up for you. Take and drink; this is the blood of the New Covenant" (cf Luke 22: 19-20)--the blood which saves us from Satan's pursuit every day. The Blood of Christ marks us as God's redeemed, as ones saved by Christ, just as the blood of goats sprinkled on the door posts of the houses of the Chosen People saved them from physical death.
Thank you, Lord, for this gift of faith!
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