Sunday’s hymn of the day is the ‘Battle Hymn of the
Reformation,’ Luther’s great hymn, A
Mighty Fortress Is Our God (LSB 656). Luther based the hymn on Psalm 46,
but the Introit and Psalm of the Day, Psalm 91, also expresses the same idea,
that the Lord is a great Fortress and Refuge. We can take rest in Him when we
are assaulted by the slings and arrows of the Evil One, for Christ has defeated
the devil. He still seems powerful to us, but he is merely in his death throes
until the Last Day, when Christ will cast him into the abyss for all eternity.
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Collect of hope of eternal life in Christ, Lutheran Service Book © Concordia
Publishing House, St Louis
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