The way to freedom involved a journey. In the course of this journey, they would experience many hardships and setbacks. Sometimes they would feel that God had abandoned them, and that all their efforts had been a waste of time and energy. Even people like Moses felt like that at times.   He felt unequal to the task of leading the people, and tried to convince God that he wasn’t the right man for the job. Needless to say, he didn’t succeed in this!   We know from the Bible and from the general history of the human race – not to mention from the history of the Church! – that God often chooses the most unlikely individuals to carry out the most important tasks. It is only when such people realise their inadequacy that they will be successful as God’s instruments.  

 

Perhaps during this Lent we may have become aware of our own inadequacy, our sinfulness, our failure to live up to whatever Lenten resolutions we may have made. Yet we are called to be God’s instruments, to lead others – principally by the example of our own lives – to know and experience the freedom that can come only from the knowledge, love and service of God for which (as the ‘Penny Catechism’ reminds us) we were made.