On this 4th Sunday in Lent, we hear how God’s people struggled with impatience during their wilderness journey to new life in the promised land. We hear how God responded with a means of healing -and celebrate the NT message that we have been saved by God’s grace as a gift of love. We hear one of the most beautiful truths of Scripture from John 3:16: for God so loved the word, that God gave us God’s only Son, Jesus!