Evening: Psalm 44; Mark 1:1–13
The Lord’s Prayer used at Iona Abbey seems right ... instead of “deliver us from evil” or “save us from the time of trial”, it prays, “save us in the time of trial”. That is, we do not expect God to deliver us from trials but to be with us in them, to make us whole through trials, in wilderness experiences, not by rescuing us from all our troubles. Perhaps that is why the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness? ... Jesus would endure his own time of trial so that we would know he is with us in ours.
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