triangles

Friday August 27th, Luke 13: 14 The meeting-place president, furious because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the congregation, "Six days have been defined as work days. Come on one of the six if you want to be healed, but not on the seventh, the Sabbath." Notice the triangulation as the meeting place president addressed not Jesus, but the crowd about his concern. Sometimes the established order of things needs to be shaken up a bit. Sometimes the healing that is needed is to spend the day in worship. But worship without changed lives, changed perspectives, and a changed attitude toward justice is not really worship. If one were to try to work all the time and forgo sleep day after day, soon, among other things, you would become very unproductive. So it is with the Sabbath. Without it, all those things we strive for in life just become a blur. Without worship leading to justice in this world, worship itself is just a blur.