07/16/2004: "Daily Reflection on Scripture"

Today Jesus tells us fairly directly that He is Lord. For the Jews of the first century, the law was above reproach. Anyone who dared question the law was instantly said to be a heretic. But as Christ points out "the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath" which might as well mean He is Lord of all to the Jews.

Christ is of course Lord of all. We must remind ourselves of that whenever we think we know the rules and how to apply them. The truth is, only Christ (or said differently God) understands what is truly just and truly righteous and hence what the rules should be. We can only to our best to understand what has been told to us through divine revelation. We need to remember this whenever we have rules, that we don't let them be the benchmark and not the underlying truths we have learned from divine revelation.

May we all have the strength to follow Christ no matter what lines we must cross to do so.