Sunday

Jesus asked provocative questions.

Sometimes He asked questions that needed no answers. Sometimes the response was so obvious that people who heard Jesus stood there dumbfounded by the power of the question.

Such is the case in today's question.

The work around us today in Louisiana is staggering. People are struggling to find solutions to their distress. Problems don't know what day of the week it is.

Here is a personal confession. I have been taught that Sundays were sacred, and I beleive that.

However, Jesus asked a very powerful question to a group of people that were judgmental.

Here is the question.

"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"

The scripture tells us that the "people with all the answers" simply "remained silent".

That is funny to me....people who are experts remaining silent. It must have been a powerful question.

As if that is not enough, He went on to illustrate his question.

"If one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull him out?"

Again, there response was silence.

I am trying to figure all of this out, meanwhile I hear oxen bleating in the ditches. My job today is to go and pull them out.

Not a bad way to spend a sabbath if you really believe that all work is sacred.

Just a thought.