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It was not Moses…

THE WORD BECAME FLESH

Tuesday in the second week of Easter, 2021

Acts 7:51-8:1

Ps 31

John 6:30-35

It was not Moses…

Dear friends in Christ, sometimes the works of God are erroneously attributed to humans who served as intermediaries. There are situations where those who are supposed to be religious leaders have turned themselves into gods, with their gullible followers accepting whatever they say without questioning. Faith without reason is dangerous. Anyone who does not consider carefully what he has been told by another before acting, will find himself doing the wrong thing.

Our Gospel passage for today (John 6:30-35) is a continuation of the teaching on the Bread of Life. Those whom Jesus had told that they were looking for him because they wanted food and not because they have seen the signs, said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform? Our Fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven.” Some had the erroneous belief, that Moses the great leader of the people, was the one who provided for the people, in that period of need. But Jesus corrected that, saying, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven…” There are various instances where religious leaders have devised means to take the place of God. Many posters and banners and billboards you see on religious matters, worships and crusades are likely to point to the pastors, evangelists and healers, sometimes the name of God or Jesus and the image of Jesus are no where to be found. Where is Jesus or God in your life and ministry? Who is more important, God or yourself? Many advertisements simply point to the pastor as the one who makes things happen—work miracles and deliver people from their maladies—‘Not Moses, but God.’ When the ministry does not point to Jesus, there is something fundamentally wrong. Is that not the reason why some visit occult shrines for power;  Why there is no sense of Christian sacrifice—the Cross—in many places of worship?

 

The first reading of today (Acts 7:51-8:1) tells us clearly of the kind of sacrifices the early Christians made to establish the church. It was a sacrifice based on the truth of the Gospel. The blood of the martyrs became the seeds of that church.  Stephen, one of the deacons, described as a man full of the Spirit, confronted the people about their attitude to the truth in the persecution of the prophets and the death of Jesus, which he described as a murder. When he declared his vision of the open-heaven and Jesus on the right of God, they rushed him and stoned him to death, while he yielded his spirit into the hands of Jesus. Saul consented to this murder, something that will continue to plaque his mind for the rest of his life. Where do you belong?

 

Let us pray: Lord, help us to be your true followers. May we hold on firmly to the truth of the Gospel. Amen. 

+Remain blessed

 

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