Comments on: The anger and compassion of Moses https://www.acatholic.org/the-anger-and-compassion-of-moses/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ekene Levi https://www.acatholic.org/the-anger-and-compassion-of-moses/#comment-14954 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:17:01 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=52509#comment-14954 This is what I don’t understand that even made me look-up Moses’ anger online. He was still with God on the mountain when God told him, look this people have gone into idolatry again, just shift aside let me destroy them and birth a clean nation through you and he replied apologetically to God on their behalf and made God to change his mind about their sinful acts. To my amazement, he came down and got the same angry he made God to calm His own and broke the stone tablets, he didn’t just stop there, after looking at them for some time, he echoed with a loud voice “who is on the Lord’s side” and he made the Levithes that rallied towards him to kill 3000 men (same thing God would have done). Yet after all these, he have to go and pray again that God forgives them. I don’t understand the anger and the compassion of Moses, he seem to get upset very easily but the way he always present this people to God again is never like he himself ever gets irritated by what they do most times. Remember that he first got angry when the people picked more mana as instructed and had left over which actually decayed and some even have to go out on the seventh day to pick against his warning, that was the first record of his anger against the children of Israel in the Bible, that one was even wrath and not just anger, and remember his own was recorded even before God’s own was talked about regarding same issue so I found out that he was a man that easily get upset when the people neglected and didn’t follow an already laid down rules and instructions, if it should be something that has to do with a situation that is unforeseen circumstance which God only has to bring the solution like crossing the red sea, throwing a stick into the water and even when they murmured against him about food, Moses understood them from the stand point that he’s the leader and have to answer these things for the people but if it has to do with an instruction, Moses can get very angry with you to the extent that it could cost a life yet he will go back to ask for mercy not for himself but for the remaining people. Why is it like that, what about Moses didn’t we know, what’s the dynamics of his humility, he was the most humble of all men on earth yet his anger deprived him of entering the promise land, what’s the real lesson in that statement?

]]> By: cheryl Kelly https://www.acatholic.org/the-anger-and-compassion-of-moses/#comment-2366 Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:39:20 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=52509#comment-2366 Thanks for taking the time to do this reflection.

True words about our anger and impatience especially with our children. May God give me the grace to seek him when I become angry at my children spouse or others.

Also, I wondered why the Israelites were always loosing their way. Were they not focused, was it the pull of the world, was it that they wanted to do things their way, not wanting to wait on God’s timing? I don’t want to judge but there are possibilities and we too could fall into the same pot.We must guard against them by daily prayer, attending mass regularly, daily devotion and keep with person who can keep us on , track.

May God help us all

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