Morning Moments

THE LORD OF THE SABBATH
Part V

The Failure "Have ye not read" Mt 12:3-5; Mk 2:25-26; Lk 6:3-4

Matt 12:3 (NASU) But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions,
4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?
5 "Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

Which is greater the moral law or the ceremonial law? The failure is seen in their inability to understand God's Word. They had their own set of by-laws. The Scripture was not enough. It was much like our Supreme Court which is consumed with interpretations of the law, and unconcerned about the instruction of it.

How can we expect God to enlighten our understanding about His revelation, when our commitments are nullified by our reservations. We want God to teach us, but we don't want Him to transform us. We want Him to help us learn, but we don't want Him to help us live. We want Him to improve our feelings, but we don't want Him to help our faith. We want patience, but not pruning and purging.

Our failure is in our understanding of the will and ways of God. The act of rubbing out grain with the hands had come to be understood as work, and since the law taught no work on the Sabbath, what they did was thus prohibited. How ridiculous!

BLESSINGS!