Tuesday of Week 28 – Rom 1:16-25; Psalm 18:2-5; Luke 11:37-41
‘Oh, you Pharisees! You clean the outside of cup and plate, while inside yourselves you are filled with extortion and wickedness. Fools!’
Exactly! Those Pharisees were foolish. They were so entranced by what was external that they stopped paying attention to the inside. How could they be led into such a state?
Hmmm . . . . . The usual way. After all, closer at home we can see that pharisaic care for appearance. In this: what people look like and what they say. And where is the truth? For myself, do I slip into my own opinion of whether they are making a proper and good impression? The truth often recedes into the background. As long as on the outside everything looks OK.
Help us, O Lord, to see the truth. Of myself and of others. Especially for those who I am inclined to regard as far from perfect. It is entirely possible that inside they are purer than I think by looking at their external appearance . . . Help us, O Lord, to see the truth.