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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