{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Reflections","title":"Friday of the Twenty-First Week After Trinity","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":418,"description":"October 30, 2026\n\nToday's Reading: Introit for Trinity 22 - Psalm 130:1-2, 7-8; antiphon: Psalm 130:3-4\nDaily Lectionary: Deuteronomy 31:30-32:27; Matthew 20:1-16\n\n“If You, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.” (Psalm 103:3-4)\n\nIn the Name + of Jesus. Amen.\n\n“Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!” That’s how Psalm 130 begins. The depths. Not the shallows, not the comfortable middle ground, but the depths - the place where you’re in over your head, where the water is closing in, where you can’t save yourself.\n\nMaybe you know what that feels like. The guilt of something you’ve done that you can’t undo. The shame of falling into the same sin again. The fear that God is keeping score and you’re losing badly. The depths are where you go when you realize you can’t fix yourself, when all your excuses run out, when you’re finally honest about how much you need help.\n\nThe psalmist asks the question we’re all afraid to ask: “If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?” If God kept a record of our sins, if He tallied up every wrong thought, every selfish word, every broken promise, every moment of pride or lust or hatred - who could stand before Him? The answer is obvious: nobody. Not one person. We’d all be condemned.\n\nBut then comes the word that changes everything: “But with you there is forgiveness.” Not because we’ve earned it. Not because our good deeds outweigh our bad ones. Not because we’ve finally gotten our act together. But because with God there is forgiveness. It’s who He is. It’s what He does.\n\nAnd you know where we find this forgiveness: at the cross. Jesus went into the depths for you - into the depths of suffering, the depths of God’s wrath against sin, the depths of death itself. He took your iniquities upon Himself so that God wouldn’t mark them against you. He stood in your place so that you could stand before God forgiven, clean, and righteous.\n\nThat’s...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/P3eUvssXYVZBQK4BZg1UEKstUh8zuVz_CoZCK6YjRSs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI1MTcyLzE3MDI0/Mjg1MzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}