The Blindness of Pride

1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30 - Ps 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11 - Mk 7:1-13

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Today I have achieved perfect sympathy with the Pharisees. It is entirely possible to do all the right things for all the wrong reasons. It is entirely possible to strengthen the tendancy of devotional action while all the time straying further from God.
How often do we try to help people in the direction we want them to go instead of the direction God has set for them. We claim it is out of love and compassion for them and believe it, but it is really gratification of ourselves and justification of our own actions we seek. If I did this to find God and I make someone else follow them same path then obviously I was right to do what I did.
A common theme among theologians is that there is no one path to God or His will and that each person must encounter God of their own accord.
Yet, we persist in thinking ourown way is the best. I am no less.