26/03/2026

I have never been aware of hearing the voice of the Lord but everything that supports what is virtuous in my life is revealed WORD interpreted  in the human words which make up Scripture.

I do not understand the word play in Hebrew that is signified by the change of "Abram" into "Abraham". I have read or heard read this passage of Scripture thousands of times during my lifetime and before today in my 86th year I don't think that I have ever even looked for an explanation.

In the Gospel in its translated into English version that I read today, however, the Jews who were listening to every word that came from the lips of God heard "never taste death" and were shocked to the centre of their beings for they knew that death was as sure as the taxes they paid to Caesar.

Jesus is true man. He has experienced time just as we, the living, are still doing and so 2000 years ago he could say "I am" and mean that he is a living body and soul.

With Jesus "there is always something greater here" and so his "I am" in human time is always the WORD,  IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, that is revealed by human language in the totality of Scripture.

It is God, himself who speaks in today's Gospel. 

"Before Abraham was I am."

 Within the words of scripture we find WORD, the Truth/Love of God and we all have the freedom to make the right choices and to access the guidance that was revealed and completed in Jerusalem by the inexpressible humility of the acceptance of death by our all-powerful and all-loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Mary.

"Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother."