Saturday, 6/16/13
Our first reading is from Paul’s Second Letter to the
Corinthians and there is much there that we cannot well understand. A key
element in Paul’s life was that following on his conversion he spent fourteen years
meditating deeply on what Christ meant to him and what Christ means to us. The many wonderful things he says in
his Letters are the product of that long period of deep prayer.
It is only by quietly praying over the thoughts he put into
writing that we can hope to understand them. Let me just list some of the deep
thoughts he gave us in today’s reading.
He indeed died for
all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who
for their sake died and was raised.
We regard no one
according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet
now e regard him so no longer.
(He seems to be saying there that those who knew Jesus when
he was alive should abandon those memories, coming instead to associate only
with Christ in heaven. Or, am I wrong there?)
We are ambassadors for Christ, as if God
were appealing through us.
For our sake he made
himself to be sin who did not know sin so that we might become the
righteousness of God in him.
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