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Lent - Week Four 2010
By Pat Lee | March 16, 2010
Tuesday : March 16, 2010
Readings: Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9; Matthew 5:17-19
Scripture Verse: “Take care not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen” Deut 4:9
Reflection: Someone once wrote: “I always sleep like a baby when I return to the house where I grew up”. As we mature from childhood to adulthood, we bring with us the sights, smells, tastes and sensation that are rooted in the “house” of our infancy and youth. If we are able to return to that house, we may find that those sensations are still there speaking to us of a time when we were protected and loved. In our first reading, Moses tells the people “not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen but teach them to your children and children’s children.” What is so important that we need to have it ingrained into our senses for centuries? It is the fact that God loves us, cares for us and protects us.
In today’s gospel, when Jesus says that he has come to fulfill the law and the prophets, he is talking about him being the centre of and source of that love and care and protection that God has offered to people since creation began. That love and care and protection surrounded the people of Israel through their centuries of the law and prophets. In Jesus, it is offered to all people as Jesus continues to offer people manna in the desert and a light to guide us in the darkness.
During Lent we are invited to return to the familiarity of our spiritual home, to prayer and worship and listening to God’s Word in Scripture and to allow that experience to speak to us of God’s ongoing love and care and protection of us.
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