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Our lesson, the Third Servant Song, about the Suffering Servant whom Deutero-Isaiah describes, refers to the Messiah sustaining the weary. We are weary from our conspicuous consumption cycle, which in 2012 had us accumulating an average household debt of $15,587, and from the rising health-care costs and inflation (it costs $486 to buy what you could get with $100 in 1973). John Calvin nicely describes how the Messiah who comes sustains us in that weariness:
