Daily Inspiration

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.” —Matthew 12:1-8

Were the Pharisees confronting Our Lord, whose identity He hid from them, because they feared for His soul? Did they fear He might be transgressing the Lord and were offering a correcting mercy to His soul? Or was their purpose only to condemn Our Lord?

I must examine my own intentions then. Do I confront one because I pity a lost soul, unknowing or uncaring for God’s Law? Do I wish for him mercy, that he may come to know and love the Lord, or do I condemn? My friends, when we reach the throne room of the Lord, we will wish every soul ever created were with us in that glory.

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