Important and essential teachings and instructions need to be repeated every now and then.
Even basic healthy lifestyles and practices need reminders.
So, we will hear it every now and then to have regular sleep pattens, to eat moderately, to exercise regularly and to go for yearly medical checkups.
We may hear it but we may be too distracted with other things, and so we don’t really listen to it and act on it.
But there might come a time when it will somehow catch our attention and we act on it immediately.
In the gospel, the scribe asked Jesus a question that has an obvious answer.
Whatever the intentions the scribe had in asking the question, Jesus gave the answer that summarizes the core of the Law.
So, to love God and to love neighbour needs no further elaboration, and the scribe knows it and has heard it multiple times.
But this time round, the words of Jesus seems to enter into the heart of the scribe.
And the scribe even reiterated what Jesus said and seems to understand it deeper and with conviction.
As we journey on in this Lenten season, let us listen attentively to the Word of God.
May the Lord grant us the wisdom and the intelligence to grasp the meaning, and may we walk in the ways of the Lord with love and conviction.