Thursday, 7 February 2019

HE LIKED TO LISTEN TO HIM.


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.


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