3/24/19: 3rd Sunday of Lent: Allowing Ourselves to be Consumed by God’s Love

How do we receive Jesus's urgent plea for us to repent? Do we receive it with indifference or even irritation? Or will we recognize our need for a Savior and welcome Him? Sometimes we might feel like giving our lives totally to God may make us lose something of what makes life interesting or beautiful. That if we allow God to do what He wants with us we will be less ourselves. This is where the image of the burning bush from the first reading is so helpful. The bush is consumed but not destroyed. So it is with us when we allow ourselves to be consumed by the fire of God's love: What is not truly us is burnt off, and we become more perfectly ourselves.