Day 113: Healing On The Sabbath:
"If the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the laws of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath?"
—John 7:23
I'm not sure why Anderson decided to focus on this scripture today because he really didn't have much to say. He just shares a story about when he was working in the ER and had to give a gentleman 176 stitches after he had been in a bar fight. The fact that he did this on a Sunday is the main connection to the scripture. He believes that God was honored as he "did everything [he] could to heal that man."
I think we have a tendency to get bogged down in rules, especially in fundamentalist Christianity. If Jesus shows us anything in this scripture, it's that we have to weigh "the rules" and be able to discern when to break them for the sake of honoring God and serving, loving, and helping others.
Perhaps that is why wisdom is mentioned 234 times in the Bible. It's difficult to have discernment without having wisdom.
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