Dt 9:10 - The LORD gave me the two stone tablets inscribed,
by God’s own finger...
February 5 was National Doodle Day. Doodles,
those little drawings we make without thinking. They reveal our subconscious
and inner thoughts. Most of the time, doodles come from boredom.
When we doodle, we draw whatever we like. Our
doodles are individual to us and to our lives. Amazingly, different people
will doodle similar things and this allows the experts to analyze them.
I doodled. My favorite doodle was a curved road
map that went all along the margins of my paper. I put in flowers, trees, cars,
airplanes, and direction signs with arrows and zigzags.
I am happy to share that psychologist say flowers and
trees show a person who is family centered and warm hearted. The curves reflect
harmony and love. The vehicles, arrows, and zigzags are symbols of a determined
energized mind that needs to be challenged.
Another symbol of determination that I
would draw in the margins of my note book was a cross.
Early in the morning he arrived
in the temple area, and all the people started
coming to him, and he sat down and
taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had
been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. And they questioned Jesus on
The Law.
And, Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. Jesus inscribes in the earth a doodle by God's own finger!
Maybe, he was bored with the scribes and
Pharisees always challenging him, trying to catch him by his words or actions contrary to the Law of Moses. But, Jesus was not challenged and
caught them in hypocrisy.
“Let the one among you who is without sin be the
first to throw a stone.” With these words, Jesus points out that they don’t keep the Law of
Moses; and, the finger of God begins to doodle again.
Jesus did a great thing for the woman. By his words
of justice, mercy, and repentance, she can stand by him at the end.
Although it’s not written in the Gospel, Jesus did a great thing for all the people present. By his words
of justice, mercy, and repentance, they leave with the task to examine
their conscious and draw closer to God.
The Lord has done great
things for us. Even
greater, the Lord does great things for us!
We should try to live the example of this
gospel: Come to the Lord, examine our conscious, ask forgiveness and
reconciliation, go and from now on do not
sin any more.
Like the woman in the Gospel, the Lord allows us
to stand near him. The Lord gives the supreme good of knowing Jesus Christ; no matter what rubbish we’ve lived through. We may gain Christ and
be found in him. Forget what lies behind but strain towards what lies ahead …
the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah prophesied the Lord, Remember not the events of
the past … I am doing something new! He makes us new. By his justice and mercy the Lord continues to do great things for us!
I wonder what Jesus doodled. I’m sure Jesus’
doodle showed determination; maybe, he drew “The Cross.”
Y’all be good, y’all be holy. Preach the gospel
by the way you live and love. Amen.
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