You wonder why anyone would want to harm him? He helped people. He cured their diseases. He had compassion on those who were oppressed. Why would anyone like that be on someone's "hit list?
Well, that age old thing called jealously could have something to do with it. So could fear of losing one's standing among the Jewish people because Jesus' popularity seemed to keep growing and growing and growing.
Life hasn't changed much. People still resent others who threaten their security in the workplace, in the Church and in most social situations in which we find ourselves. We are all sinners. We have each taken our turn at being uncharitable in one way or another.
These are the kinds of things in which we need to die-to-selfishness. When I see myself being tempted to gossip about someone who I see as my rival, when I find myself angry at another's success, or when I just use the spin that my being a competitive person made me, (as if I had no choice!), harm another person's chances, I am most certainly not dying to my selfishness. The truth of the matter is that I often do not even notice how blind I am to the ways I center around myself.
Lord, you healed so many who were blind to their sinfulness and selfishness. You healed those who were limited in body, soul and spirit. Please heal me in the areas of selfishness that I still cling to. Help me rise by taking the higher road of treating all the people I know and meet. My attempts of taking the higher road is the Resurrection Way.
Well, that age old thing called jealously could have something to do with it. So could fear of losing one's standing among the Jewish people because Jesus' popularity seemed to keep growing and growing and growing.
Life hasn't changed much. People still resent others who threaten their security in the workplace, in the Church and in most social situations in which we find ourselves. We are all sinners. We have each taken our turn at being uncharitable in one way or another.
These are the kinds of things in which we need to die-to-selfishness. When I see myself being tempted to gossip about someone who I see as my rival, when I find myself angry at another's success, or when I just use the spin that my being a competitive person made me, (as if I had no choice!), harm another person's chances, I am most certainly not dying to my selfishness. The truth of the matter is that I often do not even notice how blind I am to the ways I center around myself.
Lord, you healed so many who were blind to their sinfulness and selfishness. You healed those who were limited in body, soul and spirit. Please heal me in the areas of selfishness that I still cling to. Help me rise by taking the higher road of treating all the people I know and meet. My attempts of taking the higher road is the Resurrection Way.
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