In today's gospel, Mark 3: 1-6, Jesus invites a man with a withered hand to come up to Him in the synagogue. It is the sabbath and Jesus asked the Pharisees: "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it? But they remained silent. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, 'Stretch out your hand.' He stretched it out and his hand was restored." Angered that Jesus healed the withered hand on the sabbath, the Pharisees left the synagogue and plotted to kill Jesus.
Has there been a time when we were challenged to rise above the law and do what is right? How did we respond? angrily that our rigid stances and idolization of the law was challenged? Did we leave the challenger's presence and plot against that person, spewing words of revenge against him/her? Or did we step back, reflect upon the situation and realize the call to conversion of heart?
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