In today's first reading, Jeremiah 1: 4-5, 17-19, God tells us, through the prophet, that God knew us "before [God] formed us] in [our mother's] womb" and that He "dedicated" us before we were born. Through the prophet Jeremiah, God asks us "to gird" ourselves and to do and say what God commands us to do or say; "Be not crushed on [account of others], as though I would leave you crushed before them....[Others] will fight against you but not prevail over you, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord."
And God does not break His promise! We see that truth in Christ Jesus. In today's Gospel, Luke 4: 21-30, after Jesus spoke in the synagogue of his hometown, the people turned against Him. They took Him "to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong." Jesus "passed through the midst of them and went away." God the Father delivered His son from the evil ways of those plotting to harm Him and He does so for us, as well! God is on the side of those who do His will and who follow the plan God has marked out for them!
Who am I in today's Gospel: those who, out of anger or jealousy, rise up against others or those who, girded with grace and the power of the Spirit, speak the truth as directed by God, as Jesus did? Do I, like Jesus, trust the Father in fighting for us and protecting us from evil?
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