With these few words Jesus began to deconstruct the sin-filled traditions that had become the God of Israel. So many so-called "good" things get suborned by man to become idols. Even our worship and our piety can begin to occupy the God place in our lives.
Why? because it is much easier to control and manipulate a thing that we have created than to be in a relationship with the God who created us. It is easier to shape our lives around a pattern that we have constructed than to allow God to shape us and then hold us accountable for how we respond.
That is why His love for us is often difficult to bear...and why, even in the face of such kindness, forgiveness and provision, we balk and seek our own sin-laden pathway. It is precisely because God's forgiveness requires a response from us that we run and hide from Him. We know instinctively that if, no...when He sees us, all will be laid bare. We only think that we can hide. But, alas, we cannot! He is indeed the Lord, not only of the Sabbath, but of all that surrounds it.
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