Episode 480 - Turn to the Lord in time of trouble

<p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/romans/4?1">Rom 4:1-8</a></p> <p>Brothers and sisters:<br> What can we say that Abraham found,<br> our ancestor according to the flesh?<br> Indeed, if Abraham was justified on the basis of his works,<br> he has reason to boast;<br> but this was not so in the sight of God.<br> For what does the Scripture say?<br> <em>Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.</em><br> A worker’s wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.<br> But when one does not work,<br> yet believes in the one who justifies the ungodly,<br> his faith is credited as righteousness.&nbsp;<br> So also David declares the blessedness of the person<br> to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:</p> <p><em>Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven<br> and whose sins are covered.<br> Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not record.</em>Psalm <a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/32?1">32:1b-2, 5, 11</a></p> <p>R. (see 7) <strong>I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.</strong><br> Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,<br> whose sin is covered.<br> Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,<br> in whose spirit there is no guile.<br> R. <strong>I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.</strong><br> Then I acknowledged my sin to you,<br> my guilt I covered not.<br> I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,”<br> and you took away the guilt of my sin.<br> R.<strong> I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation</strong>.<br> Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just;<br> exult, all you upright of heart.<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/12?1">Lk 12:1-7</a></p> <p>At that time:<br> So many people were crowding together&nbsp;<br> that they were trampling one another underfoot.<br> Jesus began to speak, first to his disciples,<br> “Beware of the leaven–that is, the hypocrisy–of the Pharisees.</p> <p>“There is nothing