Today's readings speak of God's unwavering promises and love to people that have been beaten and killed. They have had their fields burned. Their animals had been slaughtered and left for the wild dogs. They have watched their families carted off to be sold as slaves.
And in the midst of it all, God says "don't worry, be still, I know, it will be ok".
Do you believe it?
During Lent we offer things to God, but would our hearts sing the song of Joy we read about today if we were on the high point of Japan when the wall of water came and washed it all away? Would we? How could we?
Water does not wash away tattos. Isaiah 49:16 tells us we are tatooed on the hands of God. People may assail us, the broken world may unleash against us, but He who is for, us will always be for us.
We can only live in this trust, we read, if we are born again. Have you ever really meditated on that command? As a dad of toddlers whom I adore this is a hard pill to swallow. I am telling Olivia and Hannah ( or will be, they can't grasp this one), that they need to have new parents and family. New loves and values, new desires, new bodies! Then, and only then will they have access to the family inheritence...power of the Holy Spirit now, a new heart, and in the age to come, Eternal Life. This rebirth comes after being called back into the womb as it were by God. It is a response to an invitation! And it is in this new birth that God works away at the calluses on our hearts with the pumice stone of the Holy Spirit.
Are you really reborn, are you living like the new family?
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