Gospel: Mark 12: 18-27
In reading the Gospels there emerges a variety of different ways in which people approach Jesus and how they initiate conversation with him. Today and yesterday we find groups of people who bring questions to Jesus, but they are not looking for truth in asking the questions. They are looking to trap Jesus so that they might bring charges against him to religious and civil authorities.
In other Gospel stories we find people approaching Jesus with questions in an attempt to justify their own positions or because they want some favor from Jesus. These are merely transactional encounters where again no deep relationship is sought, nor is any real truth desired. But then there are people who do approach Jesus - or he approaches them - and they possess great openness to him and the message of truth they hope to find.
So today is a good time to reflect on our own approaches to God: what is our own posture and intention in coming to the Lord? Are we like certain groups who want to trap Jesus; are we transactional and self-interested; or are we before the Lord with complete openness to a full relationship of love with God and others?
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