A Crooked Event

  In Luke 13 Jesus encounters a crooked person. Here a woman who “for eighteen years had …was bent double, and could not straighten up at all”. But this was not who I was referring to.

  The crooked person here comes after Jesus heals her. In verse 14 we read: “But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, "There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day." This official has such a skewed perceptive that he looks at a miracle as something wrong because it doesn’t fit into his narrow viewpoint of what was right.

  I wish I could say there are not still people like this today. Folks that allow their viewpoint to cloud good that is being done. Maybe it’s their political leanings, their fanatic devotion to traditions, or their own self-importance, they condemn good work by finding some feeble reason to bring fault. Rather than celebrate good being done they look to shut it down.

  Jesus saw it for what it was hypocrisy and foolishness.  Let’s make sure we do the same.

Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil

Romans 14:16