Monday of Week 29 – Eph 2:110; Ps 99:1-5; Luke 12:13-21

To see your sin, your transgression – and stand before God with joy: this is only possible for those who have been touched by grace – and therefore for all of us.

Putting hope in God sometimes seems so distant, almost abstract. The tedious, painful everydayness of our sins seems much more concrete, real. And yet God says to us: Fool! Consider where you place your hope, what you want to protect yourself with, what are you striving for. Fool!

The law of grace assumes that it is something that is not due to us. When will we finally understand this? To desire and to receive, to receive and to thank, to thank and to ask – always for more, more so, deeper. Without fear that we will be abandoned, that this source will be exhausted. To rejoice in God because we see our sin clearly.