+ What an incredible contrast of words describing God’s thoughts, actions, and intentions.
In ExodusChapter 32, Mosesimplored the Lord to “turn away from his wrath,” and to “relent in punishing his people” for their idolatry and their stiff-neckedness.
And then, referring to their own source of authority and the logical conclusion they should draw for themselves, John’s Jesus, speaking to the Jews, says —
“For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.
But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Jesus tells it! His words are compelling and damning at the very same time.
And it is words such as these that will soon draw us into the holiest of weeks, and the holiest of days in our entire liturgical year.
And we will tell the story, once again, of a love that was without limits or conditions — a love that is eternal.