Monday, March 28

Jeremiah 7:1-15

Psalms 77, 79, 80

Romans 4:1-12

John 7:14-36

… I have not come of my own accord; but he who is

true sent me, and him you do not know. I know him, for I come from him and he sent me. So they sought

to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come. Yet many of the people believed in him: they said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

John 7:28b-31

Jesus has been teaching and the question of who He really is arises once again. His detractors claim He has a demon and others that he will commit the unpardonable sin of going to the Jews who have intermarried with gentiles. Some even wonder if the Temple leaders already know that He is the Messiah but are not telling the people. Further there is by now a plot to kill Him. In the middle of all this turmoil Jesus says that they do not keep the Law, do not know God and then He says “I know him, for I come from him and he sent me.” It is this statement that causes the fury, fear and hate against Him. Little has changed. The identity of Jesus still causes strong reaction for to acknowledge Him as the only true revelation of God seems to leave out so many souls. How presumptuous of us. Our first calling is to proclaim the truth of Jesus as the only Christ of God and then to leave the rest to that same God. We too easily forget that this is the same God who took on the Cross and revealed by doing so God’s heart. God’s mercy will prevail, we are to claim Jesus as Lord and trust in a love that is beyond our comprehension.

Fr. David Puckett