Thursday of week 11 in Ordinary Time
First reading – 2 Corinthians 11:1-11
“But the serpent, with his cunning, seduced Eve, and I am afraid that in the same way your ideas may get corrupted and turned away from simple devotion to Christ”. In this passage we can see the desire of Paul to keep the community in the simple devotion to Christ. Always the seduction of the evil corrupts our ideas of Gospel as the same way serpent seduced Eve. Serpent seduced Eve by saying to put her in the place of God. Our ideas get corrupted when we try to put ourselves in the place of God. And when we place ourselves in the place of God, we turn away from simple devotion to Christ. When we turn away from the simple devotion to Christ, we become burden to others which Paul is trying to avoid. He was always humble so that he is always gave the right place to God in his life. And as a result he is not a burden for others. Let’s reflect: Is the seduction to take the place of God is corrupting my simple devotion to Christ?
Thursday 22 June
