Keeping the Sabbath

 

Mark 2: 23-28

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

²³ One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

²⁵ He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? ²⁶ In 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.”

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

Keeping holy on the Sabbath is command that certainly has gone by the wayside in our modern world. With parents working all week, when are they going to buy food? In this passage, Jesus breaks the law in view of a greater necessity. But for us, the question keeps moving from one necessity to another with God sitting in empty churches Sunday after Sunday. The drift is obvious and detrimental as daily headlines attest.  It's obvious that a society without a place for due honor to God is doomed, albeit by a slow, subtle death.  May we examine our lives and see how we can comply with God's command.  :Where there's a will,  there's a way."

Bro. Rene 

 
Lord God, how marvelous are your deeds, holy and awesome is your name. You are Lord and master of all things, of even the Sabbath. May we always strive to keep holy the Lord’s Day and live every day as the gift it is from you. Amen.

  Rev. John Conley, C.S.C.