The First Reading of today's mass brings us to contemplate the complaining of the Israelites because of the difficulties of the journey to the Promised Land.

St. John Mary Vianney was a man of great penance and sacrifice. He asked the Blessed Sacrament during a Benediction that he'd accept all the sacrifices that He would send him for the conversion of his parish. The first reading of the mass tells us of the concept of the Jubilee in Israel. With the Jubilee we should recall we have received gifts from the Lord and that we need to share that with the others.

Moses built the Tent of the Covenant by following the instruction s of God to the letter. This is also how we need to approach the will of God. We need to listen to it and obey it. But there are also some things that God wants us to use our God given talents especially our spiritual faculties to choose what we would like to do, always being within the wide road that God grants us leeway.

St. Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians that he encourages us to imitate him since he also imitates Christ. If he does not try to imitate Our Lord his moral authority over the people would practically disappear.

The three readings in the mass today show us this importance. Solomon asked for the ability to distinguish good and evil. In the second reading St. Paul tells us to ask to be saved. The Gospel tells us to ask that God give us the pearl of great price and the treasure in the field, i.e., the discernment of what God wants us to do in this world and for which God created us.

God did so to make it easier for us to know what we needed to do to do good and avoid evil. As the situation of man was debilitated because of original sin, man needed assistance to know accurately God's Will in the Decalogue. Without this aid man would have tended to commit errors in getting to know God's laws, not everyone would be talented enough and have the necessary time to analyze his experiences to distill from them the way to please God in our behaviors.

God saves His people and He fights for them.

It is such an important revelation about who God is when in the first reading of today's mass for the 16th Week in Ordinary Time tells us that God offers us forgiveness as long as we repent of our sins. He is ever ready to forgive us.

God does not forsake his chose people. He sends Moses as his instrument. As usual when God chooses someone, that someone brings up an objection. But God prevails by saying He will accompany Moses.

The story of how Moses was born, the circumstances he was born in and how he survives as a baby and becoming the son of Pharaoh's daughter is illustrative of God intervening in our world.