Any Day- Devo Lk.13:10-17

Jesus is preaching and teaching in the synagogue, when he realizes there is a woman there that had been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years. The religious Jews (lawyers, chief priests, Pharisees, etc.) thought that healing on the Sabbath day was breaking a rule. They had become so legalistic, yet there were things that they would do on the Sabbath that could be considered work. Jesus calls the woman forward and heals her much to the dismay of the local synagogue ruler. He begins to call Jesus out on it, saying that there are six other days a person could come and be healed, but the Sabbath day is not for that. Surely, the synagogue ruler is thinking what is one more day for this woman who had this condition eighteen years? However, Jesus is thinking it would be one day too many! Jesus fired back at the synagogue ruler naming things that this guy and others would do on the Sabbath day that could be deemed work. His opponents were humiliated and the people were delighted. Jesus came to lighten the load...the heavy burden of religion of the legalistic Jews. Jesus came to do work. He came to do the work that set men and women free and healed them. His work was good any day of the week.---Today's christian could take note: it is good to do good any day of the week.