Friday 8th July, 2016
By Fr. Athanaius Agbo
Putting into mind being shrewd as serpent, and at the same time being innocent and simple as dove sounds hard and contradictory. But the context in which Jesus speaks may be very helpful to us. He speaks of how those who are to witness to their belief in the mix of persecutions and oppositions, should carry themselves in order to scale through when the going gets tough. Just being simple minded is not just going to be enough. Christians also need to interpret the hand writings in any giving situation. Christians should not be naive to what the society may do about our faith and expression of it.
We need to be on our guard not to fall into worldly mode of secular societies and government. In this sense we are to be innocent as dove devoid of revenge or retaliatory measure.
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