Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Our world tends to judge things in a very easy and straightforward way. And so, blessed is the man to whom nothing bad happens. Who attains the desires of his heart, and to whom life is good. And the opposite, then, is true. Woe to the man to whom bad happens, for whom life is a struggle. But it's not just "the world" that thinks that way. We do it too. Today Jesus reminds us: not so fast. Or how does the old saying go: don't judge a book by its cover! Blessings and woes may not be what you think. Blessed is the man whose faith lies not in what happens to him, but in what happened to Christ.