5th Sunday of Lent

Moses went up Mount Sinai and God wrote the 10 commandments on stone. 

But one day, as Jeremiah prophesied, God will write His Law in our hearts.  

Because Until the Laws are written on our hearts nothing will change. 

Laws are made to control behavior. 

But they never do.

We had Prohibition and that didn’t last. 

Gun control laws. 

Tax laws

Laws against murder and theft. 

Laws against discrimination of race, sex and creed.  

Just passing a Law does nothing. 

Until it is written on our hearts. 

Nothing will change. 

The Church has Laws. 

Laws about going to Church every Sunday. 

Abstaining from meat on Fridays of Lent. 

Laws about going to confession once a year before Easter. 

To name a few. 

Yet very few people keep them. 

Not until they are not written on our hearts. 

Because Once you love something or someone no one has to tell you what to do. 

It comes naturally. 

Eagerly, Willingly, Lovingly 

Once we love God with all our heart and soul

Then going to church is no longer an obligation. 

Once we love our neighbor as ourself

There will be no more war or division. 

God does not want to write Laws on Stone,

But His love in our hearts. 

Lent is all about a change of heart. 

Creating a new Heart 

A Clean Heart.  

A Heart not of Stone but of Love.