Monday, 8 September 2014

OUGHTN’T YOU TO LET YOURSELVES BE WRONGED?

PRAYER MOMENT                      


Tuesday 9 September 2014, St. Peter Claver.


OUGHTN’T YOU TO LET YOURSELVES BE WRONGED?


Pause. Be still in God’s presence.


Reading: “It is bad enough for you to have lawsuits at all against one another: oughtn’t to let yourselves be wronged, and let yourselves be cheated?” (I Cor 6:1-11)


Reflection. As Paul gets into the body of his letter to the Corinthians he turns up the heat: “How dare one of your members take up a complaint against another in the law courts!” Can you not settle your differences among you without parading yourselves before pagans? Surely it follows from belonging to Christ in the new community that you should build peace among yourselves? And then he goes further and says: “And can’t you see that you should allow yourselves to be wronged so as to better imitate the One who was wronged continually in the courts of Annas, Caiphas and Pilate? If you are truly filled with the Spirit of Jesus you would be happy to suffer as he did. In this way you will become like him. Yet we know ourselves how we boil internally when we are wronged and want to hit back and get the better of the one who wrongs us. All our defensive instincts rise up. Sometimes we are far from the mind of Christ.

Prayer. Lord Jesus, teach us to have your mind (Phil 2:5) so that we may become like you in all things and so witness to the truth. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ











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