TODAYS REFLECTION 4TH WEEK OF LENT THURS MAR 10

TODAYS REFLECTION 4TH WEEK OF LENT THURS MAR 10 ( Exd 32: 7-14, Jn 5:31-47  ).

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In todays first reading, we come to the understanding of God’s jealousy and frustration when  His chosen people  turned aside from the way that was pointed out to them, made a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ on this the LORD blazed out and  said to Moses, “I see how stiff-necked this people is let my wrath consume them. But Moses implored the LORD, God, saying, “Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt?

Moses was able to persuade our God to relent and forgive the people of Israel. The loving mercy of God is made more evident in the sending of his Son to serve us, speak to us, and died  for us and give us our eternal life. Here we see also the incomprehensible, unconditional love of God who needed no human praise, and who sought no human glory, and taught us human humility through his son.

In the gospel, Jesus begins his defense on his identity  by citing John the Baptist as a witness, He also asserts that a greater witness to his identity and equality with God the Father are the signs and miracles he performed. Finally He asserts that the Scriptures themselves, including the first five books of Moses, point to him as the Messiah, the promised Saviour but unfortunately the scribes and Pharisees did not believe what Moses had written. Their pride made them deaf to God's voice. May we be eager to listen to God's word with faith and obedience all the days of our lives.