Today, I am reading and commenting on Mark 6-7.

I am going t write about when the Pharisees confronted Jesus about the fact that His disciples did not follow their tradition of washing their hands before they ate.  In response Jesus calls them hypocrites for allowing children to get out of caring for their parents by dedicating their assets to God.  He goes on to explain that nothing outside of a person defiles them.  We are defiled by what comes out of our hearts.  We are not defiled by what we eat, or by what we touch, not even by what others do to us.  We are defiled by what we think, which leads to what we do.  What has happened to us does not justify us doing evil.  We can decide to do good, even when others have done us wrong.  Or, we can decide to do evil.  It is entirely our choice, we can allow God’s Spirit to transform our suffering into good, or we can allow our suffering to transform us into a monster.

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