O that my people would heed me,
that Israel* would walk in my ways!
At once I would subdue their foes,
turn my hand against their enemies.
The Lord's enemies would cringe at their feet
and their subjection would last forever.
- from Psalm 81
*Israel here does not refer to the modern state of Israel, but to the Lord's (supposedly) faithful people. Christians, or at least Catholics, take it to mean themselves.
We, God's people, His Israel, continue to walk our own way, don't we? Most of us try hard to follow him and for a while it seems easy but then something happens and we fall into bad ways. Not really, really bad ways but laziness, anger and all the rest. Thank God he loves us and continues to forgive us even before we have sinned yet again.
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