Prepping an Issues Show…

…on Trinity 1, so the Rich Man and Lazarus. I don’t know why but it never occurred to me before how well Proverbs 21:13 fits with it: “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.” Lutheran Prayer Companion picks this thought up in the daily prayer for Tuesday morning: “Therefore awaken me each morning; awaken my heart, that I may hear Your holy Word with a heart of faith and keep it firm in my memory; that I may incline my ears to the cries and supplications of the poor and not forsake them in their need. And when I cry to You in anguish, hear the voice of my supplication also, and do not despise the groaning of my final distress.” pp. 16-17.