“Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. ² They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. ³ And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” ⁴ Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. ⁵ He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶ The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.”  Mark 3:1-6

I find it interesting that the Pharisees are waiting in the synagogue to “see” if Jesus will heal the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath. It is amazing to me that the “people of the law” were so mired in their beliefs and their ways and their traditions, that when the miraculous occurred right in front of them, when a physical healing such as this, something that you and I will never see let alone someone living in the first century would expect to see, when this wonderful event occurred in their presence, all they could do was worry about whether this healing broke the commandment of honoring the Sabbath.  Personally, if I watched a faith healer restore a withered hand, I would be completely astounded, and amazed, and would give glory to G-d.

Do we get so mired in the details of our daily lives and our faith lives that we miss the wonderful, miraculous ways that G-d is breaking into our lives?

Pastor Dave