October 31, 2021
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Reading along with us in Luke? Here’s today’s reading:
Luke 6 (NIV)
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
1 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. 2 Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
3 Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?...........Continue Reading
Always shook my head at the beginning of this chapter. So if someone is poor and hungry on the sabbath. It’s not ok for him to eat some grain from a field to feed himself? Or someone sick cannot get medical attention on the sabbath. Absolutely ridiculous. That is not showing who God is. But that who man had become. Verse 12. Jesus goes out on a mountainside to pray all night. Jesus spent much time praying. If HE did, you think we should be!!!! Love the beatitudes. Looking at them not from a worldly view. But spiritual. Don’t we long for a righteous kingdom!! Love your enemies. Still struggle with that one. Don’t worry about revenge! To avenge is mine. I’ll rest in that verse. Verse 39. How many religions are leading people into a pit. Thank God we might not be perfect. But we are following truth!! Build your faith on a strong foundation verses 46-49. So when storms come. Stand on the promises!!!!
How misguided the Pharisees that they would rather this man not be healed if possible to respect the law of the sabbath. They put the law above the person in need.
Jesus’ teachings are so simple and yet so hard for this world to follow. We should treat each others the way we wish to be treated, we should love and show kindness to everyone not just those that show kindness to us first. This world struggles so much with this because we are so motivated by SELF we don’t put others first and certainly not others that have wronged us in any way. We must follow Jesus’ words or we end up the blind leading the blind into a pit!
Jesus does not have a problem turning things upside down. Whether it is with the legalistic Pharisees where He declares Himself to be the Lord of the Sabbath, thereby establishing the standards for it, or the ones who are poor (in spirit) receiving the kingdom of God, or the hungry being satisfied, or the ones who cry being the ones who will laugh, Jesus’ kingdom works on opposite principles from the world of men. And then what about loving your enemies, not retaliating against those who do wrong to you, is there anything more upside down than that? And then do not judge. And think more about how you have contributed to a problem/conflict than the one with whom you have the problem. What powerful relationship advice that is. But it is quite contrary to how we normally operate. This is a chapter of Jesus showing the opposite nature of His ways, but when we put them into practice, we will find ourselves on solid ground.
Amen!
Luke 6
Those who are poor, hungry, weeping, hated, reviled for Christ’s sake here on earth, will rejoice and receive great rewards in heaven. Blessed. Like the prophets.
Those who are rich have their consolation. The here and now is their reward. They will be hungry, weep, mourn. Woe. Like the false prophets.
I do feel like I see and hear all the time of people built up on the sand instead of on the solid base that is Jesus Christ. Many people build their whole lives on something that could easily be taken away and once it is taken away their spirit is destroyed. As Christians we have built our hope and passion onto something, Someone, who can never be taken away from us.