+ In our gospel passage yesterday, Jesus stated that the Sabbath
was made for man, rather than the other way around: man being
subjected to valid but uncompromising ordinary guidelines and prescriptions for
life in the Temple or Synagogue. When an act of compassion, help in an emergency
situation or just common-sense dictates that it trumps arbitrary laws of order –
then the act of goodness, kindness and healing trumps the situation.
Today in the gospel passage
Jesus plays the same card and heals the man with the withered hand. If the Pharisees
were looking for “trumped up charges against Jesus” these acts would qualify –
but this did not stop Jesus from performing them, nor did it stop them from
stacking up “evidence for later use.”
Sometimes it is required of us
to color outside of the lines – but these
times need not lead to a permanent change in the boundaries or the lines. But
these exceptions are only acceptable if the actions are for good, for life, for
health, for healing, for reconciliation!
As we go forth today to
encounter those who God has planned for us to meet up with let us not be afraid
to meet each situation as it is, and to give it from our hearts what it deserves.
Jesus
preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people.
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