You make a mistake. You get yourself in over your head.
You want the problem to just go away. But it doesn’t. It festers. And then one
day the problem erupts. Instead of doing the right thing and coming clean, you
make it worse. Far worse.
John the Baptist was
no shy wallflower. He preached repentance from sin. He baptized. He lived what
he preached. He called people out. He called leaders out for bad behavior. And
that was a problem for Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. John was
rather outspoken and didn’t mince words when he condemned Herod’s divorce from
his first wife and then marriage to his brother Philip’s wife, Herodias.
Divorce was not popular among the people Herod ruled.
To continue reading, please see my Daily Reflection today
at The
High Calling.
Painting: The
Executioner Presents the Head of St. John the Baptist to King Herod;
Giambattista Langetti (1625/35 – 1676), private collection / The Bridgeman Art
Library.
