The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath

Gospel



Mk 2:23-28


As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.




I was very busy today and wait until the last minutes to read today's gospel. After read today's gospel, I deeply feel we need to pay more attention on what God wants us to do. Otherwise we will go to the wrong direction. Just like Pharisees, they tried to challenge Jesus why his disciples did that during sabbath. If we don't have intelligent from God, we will never know how to answer those questions.