Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
July 30, 2019
Today, in Mercy, we consider God’s unconditional love.
God and Moses and the People have been through it. The trail of complaints, the golden calf, the shattered tablets – these are relational dramas to the extreme! Exodus is definitely soap opera material! Does it feel a little bit like your life, or your family’s, or the families you read about in the news?
Life is indeed a drama! And our relationship with God is highlighted and shadowed with its twists and turns. For that reason, today’s passage offers us so much comfort and confidence. Even after all that has happened, God reveals himself to Moses like this:
The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God,
slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity,
continuing his kindness for a thousand generations.
Moses is so moved by this new knowledge of God’s unconditional love, that he welcomes God as part of their community:
If I find favor with you, O LORD,
do come along in our company.
This is indeed a stiff-necked people;
yet pardon our wickedness and sins,
and receive us as your own.
We are invited by this reading to open ourselves to that same unconditional love, to thank God for journeying with us through life’s convolutions. Stiff-necked at times, repentant at others, we are always God’s beloved.
As we negotiate the intricacies of our life today, we might trustingly say like Moses:
Lord, do come along in my company.
Music: Outrageous Grace – Godfrey Birtill
Lavish Mercy 
Needed to hear this message today! Thank you, Renee!
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