By Li Qing, China
Early one morning, as I was practicing my spiritual devotions, I saw this written in
the Bible: “At that time
Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath day. But he said to them….
But I say to you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day” (Matthew 12:1–3, 6–8). After reading this passage, I fell into deep thought: “In the Age of Law, Jehovah instructed the common people to keep the Sabbath. On the Sabbath day, the common people were to stop all work; if they did not stop work on that day, then that would be a sin, and they would have to be dealt with. When the
Lord Jesuscame to perform His work, He no longer kept the Sabbath day, but instead He led the disciples to various places to preach the
gospel and to work. Why was this? What warning does
the Lord Jesus doing this hold for us?” I pondered this for a long time, but still I didn’t understand.
