We see throughout the Gospel readings this week that Jesus made a habit of recognizing God’s law over man’s law. No doubt this made the legal scholars of the day angry and even those who didn’t study the law but knew the law were irked.
We look at these situations with the benefit of hindsight. We know how the story ends. We commemorate the crucifixion and celebrate the resurrection. The winners write the history books and we know, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story.
Why, then, are we still putting man’s law over God’s law? God says, “Do not kill” and yet we create ways to take a life again and again and then try to justify our actions. God says, “Feed the poor” and we’d just assume leave that to the people who run the charities and soup kitchens. God says, “Keep holy the sabbath” and we fill our time with less important obligations and find excuses not to rest as we have been commanded. I could go on, but you get the picture.
God’s law. Man’s law. One gets you to heaven. One does not.
Where you begin is everything.
May your week be filled with God-like decisions.