Your Ways, O God, Are Love and Truth to Those Who Keep your Covenant

Ramseyb - February 18, 2024

Your Ways, O God, Are Love and Truth to Those Who Keep your Covenant

Covenant and journey are the themes of today’s responsorial psalm. Humankind’s covenant with God, reestablished in the faithfulness of Noah, is centered in God’s compassion and justice. Psalm 25, expresses the psalmist’s grateful response to that covenant love – compassion, steadfast love, kindness, goodness, and asks God to show the “way.” The psalm also praises God as the source of true wisdom: God is the guide and teacher who marks our life’s journey by way of justice and humility. The psalm is a fitting response to the Genesis reading and the bridge to the gospel in which Jesus begins his mission of proclaiming the Good News of God. As we reflect on the psalm, take time to reflect on your faith journey so far.

Make me know your ways, O God;
Teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth, and teach me,
for you are God, my savior.

For you I wait all the day long.
Remember your mercy, O God,
and your steadfast love,
which you have given from of old.

Remember not the sins of my youth,
or my transgressions;
But in your goodness,
remember me according to your steadfast love!

You, O God, are good and upright.
You instruct sinners in your way.
You lead the humble in the right path;
you teach your way to the poor.