The Christ logic: The Martyrdom of John the Baptist
1 Cor 1:17-25; Mk 6: 17-29
St.Paul boasts often saying, there is a different kind of a logic that is at work in us... and the first person who lived by that logic even before Christ the Lord, was John! Infact Christ called him the greatest of those born of a woman. The sufferings of this world are nothing compared to the glory that awaits us in the Lord, St. Paul would remind us.
Be a servant to be the Leader, be the least to be considered the best, be ready for the Cross in order to taste the true love of God... identifying ourselves with Christ is a serious affair. We would either be judged "strange"or "challenging". Many went through this ordeal due to this Christ logic... Jesus himself was affected by that wasn't he?...they called him 'possessed'...they called him 'out of his mind'...and finally villainised him and killed him, just as they did with John the Baptist.
Applying today the Christ logic... what do we expect of the world? Persecutions and pressures, what would be our response to them? In today's culture of hatred and violence, what would our style be? Do we dare to make our's the Christ logic?
