When we read the history of the chosen people, we find it not that much different from the people of today. “In those days, all the princes of Judah [politicians], the priests, and the people added infidelity to infidelity, practicing all the abominations of the nations.” Like to the people before us, “Early and often did the LORD, send his messengers to them.” Do we pay any more attention than they did? Like of old, we too, “mock the messengers of God.” We take for granted that we have a “God, who is rich in mercy.” Have we been using our Lenten journey to help correct our ways and make straight our path?
We often hear the quote from John’s Gospel, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” Yet do we read the rest? “And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil.” We have this Lenten journey to help us to prefer the light over the darkness and the truth over the false thinking of humans. John closes this section with, “But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.” Let us ask God to direct our hearts to comply with bis Truth and his Light.
Countenance of God 