Thursday of the 4th week of Lent

Memories of love

John 5:31-47

What is it really in the the people of Israel that is worth loving?  According to the scriptures, "These are stiff-necked people."

But Moses reminded God of his covenant.  It is God's love itself that is worth saving.  Remember the words: people are worth dying for; or in Olaf's case in "Frozen", people are worth melting for.  God relented and did not punish Israel.

In the Gospel, Jesus becomes the living reminder of the Father's love for us.  He bears witness because he loves the Father and the Father loves him.  Through this "human action", Jesus is in fact saving us and sparing us from the eternal wrath of God.

Apparently, study of religion is simply not enough; nor are religious practices.  As Jesus loved, do we have a concrete memory of the Father's love and we love him back?  What memories on earth are we collecting?

Let us increase our encounters with Jesus.  Let us remember to the detail all actions of love we experienced and how we returned God's love.  Finally, let us continue passing on the experiences of the Father's love.  Then we shall see that we humans are not stiff-necked!  Everything dwelling in our lives are experiences of heaven.

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