you love the best seat

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel:

Galatians 5:18-25 Psalm 1:1-4, 6 Luke 11:42-46

Luke 11:43  Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the best seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market places.

We need to ask ourselves all the time if what we are doing is for the greater good or if it is for our own pride and notoriety.  It is easy to get caught up in the pride, to think that people who support the issues that you stand for are supporting you.  We begin to think that we are the ones that people vote for and forget that it is the issues and agendas that are really what people are interested in.

Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to work for the good but to remember that without you I am nothing and that I need to stay sincere at what I do.

Amen