"Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath" Matthew 12:12

I am amazed by the Pharisees' response to Jesus healing the man in the synagogue - they went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. How horrific human beings can be. How wrong in their responses, their reactions.

Proverbs 3:21 My son! Do not let them turn from your eyes, "Keep wisdom and thoughtfulness"

Our thinking needs to be trained in the Scriptures, in the fear and love of the Lord, in wisdom and thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness is an attitude of unbiased, unprejudiced thinking: thinking that is not hampered by fixed notions, fixed standards. For the Pharisees had fixed thinking about the Sabbath and the Scriptures which meant it was all interpreted as law which must be obeyed and they must police such obedience to ensure the law is kept.

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