Lent Week 4 Thursday – Knowing and Not Knowing the Scriptures
There are interesting links to be made between the first reading and the Gospel. In the first reading we see Moses pleading, interceding for the people of Israel, that God might show them mercy. Today’s psalm also speaks of Moses standing ‘in the breach’ between the people and God, so that God might ‘turn back his destructive wrath’. It is then interesting to find Jesus saying in the Gospel that the people will be accused by Moses. What is going on? So often we read how the people doubted the message that Jesus brought, a message that was preached not only by what he said, but by what he did, through his works of healing, and of ministering forgiveness. All these things point towards who Jesus is, and to the Father whom he reveals. But the people just don’t get it …
