In Your Face

Again Jesus counters the narrowmindedness of religion with love. For Jesus love trumps religion everytime. He keeps doing this over and over. It seems obvious to us that what he is doing is the right thing to do (tossing aside some strict rule in order to serve up specific love) but he keeps doing it, and in the face of the religious patent holders. He's not trying to offend them; he's trying to teach them something. He's trying to free them (and all those under their influence). I think that what is so obvious to us is absolutely revolutionary to them because their "faith" has so ossified by their take on religion. Their religion has become molded into the idol of their faith. Of course this is not an ancient and now completely solved issue. Some who follow Jesus have taken his acts and words of love and ossified them into a strict and unbending religion. And for them religion trumps love everytime-except on those ocassions (and I've seen it happen a few times) when the rule is breaking their heart or spirit, and then I've seen the most hardened religious patent holder break down, experience a breakthrough and accept love. If only they would be able to do it without their own hearts or spirits being almost broken. They might not be the cause of breaking the hearts and spirits of others and could actually be the occasion for preventing the same in others.