something about vipers
Thursday
December 12th, Matthew 3: 1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of
Judea 2 and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: "A
voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight
paths for him.' " How do we prepare the way?
What are the rough places that need to be leveled in our lives
personally and in our lives corporately?
We often focus on the “I” in needing to make the rough places
straight. That way we can look at what
someone else is doing and since it is not what we need to do, it is easier to
judge them. What do “we” need to do to
set to make straight the paths? Do “we”
perhaps make the paths straight by dealing with issues like, working homeless
poor, unemployment, affordable housing, prevention programs that lessen the
need for more expensive prisons, the growing gap between haves and have not’s,
…………etc, etc, etc? When we focus on the
“I” then the righteousness can easily become self-righteousness and even John
had enough of that to deal with. I believe his statement was something about
vipers.
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