[ Today's Readings ]
Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love,
as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us
as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
Love is meant to be our first priority. We often make excuses to not love. These excuses often come from immorality and greed but mask themselves under the pretense of following rules.
“There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”
But thing thing is, love is always the correct choice. There isn't a day of the week or a time of day when something else should take priority. For Christians life should be all love all the time.
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
“Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
So let us not be deceived by empty arguments. The world doesn't want us to love and so supplies arguments in abundance. Even the arguments themselves can be distractions, keeping us frozen and immobile, unable to love. But we are not in darkness. We don't need to succumb to any such things. We have the light we need to see the good and the power of the Holy Spirit so that we can choose it.
For you were once darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light.
Think about this world in which we live. While it is true that we do need to figure out the best way to solve problems, paralysis by analysis is a common problem. When it is in our power to love we must do so. We need not fear hearing that we did it on the wrong day of the week.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
That yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
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