The Pharisees made the language of God's law...a god.
When Jesus ate at Matthew's house with his close followers, later joined by disreputable people, the Pharisees accused Jesus of acting cozy with crooks and riffraff (Matthew 9).
Jesus showed us how to extend love to people whose lives break the language of the law.
When Jesus healed a crippled man on the Sabbath, the Pharisees determined to join forces with Herod's followers and ruin Him (Mark 3).
Jesus showed us how to embrace the true meaning of Sabbath healing--to do good--breaking the Pharisees' strict interpretation of the language of the law.
Over and over, the Pharisees insisted that their law was God's law. How is it they ran counter to...God Himself, then on earth as Jesus?
We often overlook love in pursuit of language--say it right rather than get it right.
Jesus came to fulfill the law by expressing it through love.
That very endeavor cost Him His human flesh.
May we endeavor to express that very love, regardless of the cost.
