Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

riches of the rich. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matt 5:6). Someone says, The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles (v. 17), but I have cried, and he did not deliver me! Either I am not righteous, or I do not do the things he commands, or he does not see me. Fear not. Only do what he commands, and if he does not deliver you physically, he will deliver you spiritually. The righteous person may have many troubles (v. 19): Does he say, “Therefore let Christians be righteous, and let them hear my word, so they may suffer no hardship?” He does not promise this. Rather, if they are unrighteous they have fewer troubles, if righteous they have many. But after few hardships, or none, the unrighteous will come to eternal hardship, but the righteous will come to everlasting peace, where they will never suffer any harm.