Scripture: But before all this they
will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the
synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for
my name's sake. 13 This will be a time for
you to bear testimony. Luke 21:12-13
Reflection: “…..they will lay their hands on you and persecute you.” The word ‘they’ communicates
the other. We have the privilege of the Word given to us
and hence they would mean and always means the other.
But
it is good to check prayerfully whether we who have this privilege are instruments
of persecution and thus belong to the category of the ‘they’. If we do belong to ‘they’ then we do not
belong to the privileged class but rather to the evil class that seeks to
persecute God’s chosen.
In
your zeal to persecute you either are convinced that you are doing the right
thing or that someone is wrong and that you are doing a service to God.
The
mind cluttered with evil and rebellious towards God is the seat of many of our
wrong judgments. We persecute those whom
God favors and approve those whom men favor.
The
silence of the many that refuses to speak in favor of God’s chosen ones is in
itself a form of persecution.
Prayer: Father,
grant me wisdom so that I may seek to belong to you and not persecute your
chosen ones.
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