"You pray to be stood up; Christ stands you up!" Friday of Trinity 10 (observed) 2026

The snare of the last day falls on those sitting — and you sit because you cannot carry what you already hold. Every program you have run, from the budget to the devotional with the ribbon, set one more thing on your back and told you to stand. But the verb in the Gospel is passive: you are told to beg that somebody would stand you up. Christ has done it, and He says so out of a preacher's mouth — holy, blameless, above reproach, today, before you have improved by one ounce.