Film Friday Early in this film Isabel is sent away to a convent school to be taught by the nuns there. However the nuns she meets seem harsh and foreboding, they are strict and don’t smile much. (I should point out here that I have met various nuns who are nothing like this!) But the nuns here are quick to talk of sin and wrongdoing, rather than grace and kindness.
It’s easy at times for us lean towards judging others harshly, and perhaps edging on the Pharisee side of life. Many of the Pharisees in Jesus’s day felt they should load the ordinary people with the heavy burdens of law-keeping and extreme obedience. They believed that, if everyone behaved properly, the Messiah would come and establish his kingdom. The ‘problem’ for them was that the Messiah had come, and he was full of grace, truth and forgiveness, spending his time with those people who many of the Pharisees viewed as ‘scum’!
But Jesus challenged them – he said to the Pharisees and the teachers of the law – ‘They crush you with impossible religious demands and never lift a finger to help ease the burden.’ And in Matthew 11 v 28-30, Jesus offered a burden that was light, and a new way that could help those of us who were weary and carrying heavy burdens.
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