The Lord asked the people to listen to
his voice, but the prophet Jeremiah describes how they turned their backs on
God and stiffened their necks. Then, in
the Gospel, when the people see Jesus drive out a demon from a man who could
not speak, rather than seeing the miracle and joy in that event, they see this
healing as coming from the power of Beelzebul rather than from God.
During this holy season of Lent, God is
asking us to re-orientate ourselves and to re-orientate the way we see the
world. Think about how you can write a
letter or a document, and you can read it over and over again without seeing
the errors that are contained therein. I
always had a friend read through my papers before I turned them in at the
seminary, and I could always catch some proof-reading errors that way that I
wouldn’t notice otherwise. The people of
Israel needed the prophets to show them the way and to give them
direction. We need the word of God and
God’s commandments to keep us on the right track and to lead us to where He
wants us to be.
May our Lenten disciples continue to
lead us and guide us. May we hear the
voice calling out to us in the midst of all the other voices that are calling
out to us in our lives.
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