What ‘makes sense’ may just be a mistaken opinion

Morning: Psalm 105:1-22; Hosea 5:8-6:6; Acts 21:27-36

Evening: Psalm 105:23-45; Luke 6:1-11

While walking along a country road, I saw a small rock, bearing a freshly painted slogan: “Follow the rules if they make sense.” But what makes something ‘make sense’? Jesus ostensibly ‘broke the rules’ by healing on the sabbath. But he responded to his critics: it is how we interpret the laws that sometimes does not make sense. Jesus affirmed the law. However, he said the sabbath rest should not be slavishly applied to prohibit healing. Sometimes “the law is an ass” but, more often, the donkey is the one who twists the rules to serve his own ends.