The Sabbath Can Serve You Well If You Don't Serve The Sabbath

Today’s Reading:  Job 19; Mark 1; Mark 2

SCRIPTURE:  Mark 2:23-28

“One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?’

 25He answered, ‘Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.’

 27Then he said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.’”

OBSERVATION:

This really shows the heart of God behind the law.  The law was really birthed out of the heart and wisdom of God and is intended to benefit mankind.  Most of the law if followed would really provide health for us.  It kept us from harm and unhealthy living, it established habits that reminded us of our submissive position before God, it set us apart before a world who needs to know God.  The problem is that we began to serve the law rather than the God behind it.

APPLICATION:

The Pharisee’s could not follow the law without becoming legalistic.  I want to to find God’s heart and His wisdom for life.  I want to be who God intended me to be.  But I don’t want to serve a system, just my God.

PRAYER:

Father thank you for your word - both the Old Testament and the New.  In it we find your wisdom and your heart for people.  Help us to read it and find relationship with you in it.  Speak to us thru it.  Protect us from making a “10 steps to heaven ladder” out of it, but use it to make us more dependent and more in love with you everyday.  In Jesus name - AMEN!