8 February 2019 Josephine Bakhita
‘HE LIKED TO LISTEN TO HIM.’ (Mark 6:14-29)
What a miserable situation!
Herod ‘likes to listen’ to John the Baptist but then he goes and cuts
his head off. He is mildly attracted to
the man just as Pilate later would be to Jesus, but it made no difference when
the weight of public opinion – ‘what would people think?’ – came into
play. So he compromises with his own
conscience. We know the papers are full
of similar stories. The question is what
do I do? There are ideas and ways of acting that I like and approve of. But when they touch how I should lead my
life? There is the rub.
No comments:
Post a Comment