Thursday in the 4th Week of Lent: Letter 24
The Scripture Lessons for Today are HERE! Letter 24 is all about spiritual pride. Picture in your mind someone who would actually be proud of their humility! That is close to what we will see in our Letter today. Our Old Testament lesson from the book of Exodus offers an excellent example. The Israelites are in the wilderness at Mount Sinai. Moses is on top of the mountain talking to God. The Israelites below - on the other hand – make a golden calf and start worshipping it. Think about it. They know that Moses is talking to the God who brought them out of Egypt and across the Red Sea. Exodus tells us that they can see flashes of lightning and hear loud thunder coming from the cloud on top of the mountain and they know that God is in that cloud. They know all this and decide it is ok to offer sacrifices and worship a golden calf? Our Psalm retells the same story and verse 20 sums it all up. And so...