21/03/2021

When we read scripture we have to face what has been received and recorded as a reality that is still the loving guidance from IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, as valid for today as it was when first it was received.

Today's reading explains how Moses found himself to be in Egypt. The original sin of Adam and Eve is still corrupting mankind, even though IAMIAM has made a covenant with Abraham, and thus their jealousy unites his great-grandsons in a plot to get rid of Joseph who is the delight of his father, Jacob, and likely to become heir to the "promise".

The Psalmist has contemplated the scrolls that are the Pentateuch and his wonder at the Glory of God and his revelations to Moses bursts forth in a paen of praise with which I can identify the burning in my own heart, but do not have the poetic ability to express for myself.

All those who heard Jesus' loving guidance would have known that there was "meaning" at the heart of his parables. At that moment 2000 years ago it is doubtful that his listeners could have understood the full import of today's tale of mankind corrupted by greed for the wealth of this world.

The "learned and the clever", however, knew exactly what Jesus meant. Some of them would have accepted that Jesus' words were the "Truth that comes from God" but most fell into the category of "scribes and pharisees" who are the only people Jesus warned even to point of condemnation.

Two thousand years of hindsight means that from the point of comprehension this parable is an easy "plot" in which the various elements of the "drama" are quite obvious and are repeatedly watched on TV in various formats with different actors.

"There is something greater here", however, as it is the Incarnate Son who is speaking to the whole of time and place, to the whole of humanity and the whole Truth about himself, the promised land and we the people to whom IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has completed his revelation of being and purpose.