Thoughts From the Bible

Read M ark 2: 23- 28-   So, Jesus is presented with another teaching moment for the people.  The rituals of the day were in the  way of  people actually  eating . Jesus showed the people following Him, the traditions  established  by man did not necessarily reflect the principles of God.  Verses 27 and 28 say,  ‘And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So, The Son of Man   is Lord even of the Sabbath.”’   God rested on the seventh day of creation to show us we need to allow ourselves to rest when working. That  doesn’t  mean we are ritually supposed to ab stain from anything that is necessary on any day.  We live in a seven day a week society so there are sometimes things that must be done regardless of what day of the week it is. What is important is that I set aside time for God  regardless of the day  and also  not get hung up by denominational rules that may be go...

Read  John 5: 16-18- God rested on the seventh day of creation.  That has been further interpreted that the Sabbath or the day we should be setting aside to keep holy and focused on God should be void of work.  In the Ten Commandments, God told Moses and the Jewish people to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.  We haven't done a great job of following that commandment in modern times but in this passage of John, we need to look at it and determine what keeping the Sabbath holy really means.   I was going to review this whole section of 14 verses but there’s too much going on as Jesus tells the Jewish leaders He is the Son of God.   They had to hear it directly from Him at some point and this was it.  On the Sabbath.    Following the healing of the lame man on the Sabbath, Jesus was later seen in the Temple and identified by the lame man as the person who had healed him.   Jesus saw no limitations in helping others.   Healing...