Value People
Mark 3:1-6
God’s Sabbath law forbade work on the seventh day. It said nothing about not helping people, about not doing good. But 1st century Sabbath traditions did. You could act to stop imminent death (stop the bleeding), but you had to wait to treat or cure the ill or dying.
Jesus has healed before on the Sabbath. So, they watch, as without hesitation he calls forth a man with a stiff, deformed, withered hand. And he asks, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” He asks this of people who would rescue a sheep on the Sabbath, but refuse healing to the infirmed. (Matthew 12:11-12)
Self-righteous religious folk value things and use people. Jesus values people and uses things. Let’s follow Jesus.
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