If there's one thing my girlfriend +Harley Croft can say about me, it's that I have the tendency to become angry. In fact, sometimes it's really really bad. I can honestly admit that. Here's the crazy thing, I used to never be angry. It's just something that came out of nowhere. However there's something I just can't understand about anger. How is it that a person can be so mean and so rude on Sunday of all days, the Lord's day?
Working in retail, I see a lot of this. I mean people, wearing church clothes might I add, come in to my store and are just completely RUDE! Believe it or not, I've dealt with some of the meanest people on Sundays! The day in which the early church set apart to worship our risen savior, has somehow become the day in which all the "Christian" meanies come out. I ask myself how? How could someone leave their local church assembly, where they have "worshipped God", and come out into the public being rude and mean?
It's then that I think of Jesus. I think of the Pharisees and the religious leaders, and I kind of laugh. I know Jesus thought the same thing. He may have thought, "How can the religious leaders leave the synagogue, after teaching about and worshipping God, and condemn me for making a lame man walk on the Sabbath." The Sabbath was a bit different though. The Jews celebrated the Sabbath on Saturday as a reminder of when God rested on the seventh day. To the Jew on that day, no work was to be done. Jesus however, called himself the Lord over the Sabbath. He knew it wasn't wrong to do good on the Sabbath. The Pharisees weren't concerned about goodness, they were just concerned about looking good to the people. That meant resting and doing nothing on the day of the Sabbath.
So I believe Jesus could answer my question with some simple sentences, "Blake, they don't go for Me. They go for themselves. They go to be seen. There has not been a true change in their hearts." Jesus, you're absolutely right.
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