Today’s Reflection: Whoever looks at the Christ raised at the Cross, Lives!

By Charles Muchoki

March 27, 2012

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

First reading: Nm 21: 4-9

Responsorial Psalms: Ps 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21

Gospel: John 8: 21-30

When the children of Israel complained on why God and Moses had brought them out of Egypt and into the desert, the Lord ‘sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.’

And when the people repented for their uncalled for complaints, the Lord ordered Moses to fashion a bronze replica of a seraph serpent, and hoist it up; so that whoever looks at the replica may get healed from the snake bite!

Fast-track to the New Testament and God is the one who now sends His own Son, Jesus Christ to come down to earth and gets hoisted on the cross at the Calvary, like the replica serpent in the Old Testament. In the same way as at the times of Moses, whoever gets ‘bitten’ by sin; as much as we look up at Christ who died on the cross, then we get healing; we get the redemption; we live!

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