Now it happened that He was passing through some grain fields on a Sabbath; and His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating the grain. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him, how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the consecrated bread which is not lawful for any to eat except the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?” And He was saying to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
The issue in today’s lesson is “legalism.” The Law of Moses was intended to be a reflection of God’s heart toward us. It is a matter of defining the letter of the law verses the intent of the law. Legalism gets caught up in entrapping people based on the letter of the law when the intent may be entirely different. To practice legalism, one is trying to entrap God Himself from expressing His true desires over men for the sake of making ones own self appear better than their fellow man thus blaspheming God Himself.
Daily Prayer: Father, we have been taught to seek relationship with You and Your Son Jesus Christ. Relationship supersedes false barriers caused by pride and builds meaningful experience between us. Give us the wisdom to practice such things, and to drop our false walls of price that come between us and our neighbors. In Jesus name I pray Amen.
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