Bamboozled!

James Cathcart September 21, 2024 0 0

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Galatians 4: 19-20 (NRSVA)

19 My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, 20 I wish I were present with you now and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Paul is perplexed. bamboozled, dumbfoonert! It’s fair to say he is far from detached! He is absolutely invested in the Galatians, he even thinks of them as his children, though they weary him, stretch him, push, and defy him (much like children the world over and throughout history then!).

Behind his frustration is a fondness. And a sincere desire that rather than bamboozling him, that they may be fools for Christ to bamboozle the world.

Pray:

Rather than bamboozling apostles

help us Lord to bamboozle the world

to bamboozle it with our love and compassion

our gestures and actions

our words and decisions.

May we be bamboozlers for Christ

pleasantly surprising a world

in need of mercy and love.

May our generosity bamboozle the economy

defy expectation

and unseat historic injustices.

May we be holy bamboozlers,

confounding long established principles

and safe assumptions.

Amen.