Prepare the heart soul and strength

The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today can be considered in the light of the question about the changing of God over time. Friends have suggested that over the thousands of years of documented relationship with God that the Divine must have changed maybe even evolved. The text from the Letter to the Hebrews compares the once for all sacrifice of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins to the daily sacrifice of priests who must continually seek forgiveness of sin. The desire of God that the relationship of Love between Creator and Creature be written on our heart and be the focus of our mind is truth for all time. Moses called on Israel to hear that the Lord God is Love with your whole heart, soul and strength. We know that our decisions are the root of sin which require us to seek forgiveness from God for our failure to respond to the Love which is evidenced in Jesus the eternally Divine Son willed by the Father to be the sacrifice which removes all obstacles for our movement to intimacy with God. Friar Jude Winkler compares the parable of the sower in the Gospel of Mark today to the call to Israel to love with our whole heart, soul and strength. The intellect, resident in the heart for ancient Israel, has not internalized the Word and when the seed hits the path it is easily swept away. The soul must love with everything and it must combat persecution. We are often not ready to embrace God as we are living persecution for our relationship. The love we have for our possessions, pride and passions are the thorns which threaten to limit our self giving to God and others. We have Jesus, the Eternal Word made flesh, to bring our invitation to be in intimate relationship with God to our experience through parables and simplification which we are capable of understanding. The ancient call to Creatures to dwell with the Creator continues.