Lawbreaker?

Jesus is just alright with me! It's things like what he does in Mark 2 where he defends is followers when they eat grain on the sabbath (horrors!) that makes me remember what it was about him that first drew me in. He's got an very very low b.s.* tolerance level. The reason the religious folk were so upset with the disciples was because they were "working" on the sabbath. "they are breaking the law by harvesting the grain on the sabbath." Picking the grain qualified for them as work! Guess if you laid on the ground and waited for it to fall into your mouth that would be OK. Anyway, Jesus cuts right through their b.s. and reinterprets the truth about the purpose of the sabbath. He doesn't change what God set up the sabbath to be; he re-interprets it-gives it the original meaning. The sabbath was not set up, by God, to be a plethora of laws, as endless spigot of opportunities for others the shamey-shamey folks, but to be a source of freedom and rest and communion with God. How better to commune with God than to eat some of the bounty he has set right off the stalk? How sad that some substitute rules and regulations about God for true fellowship with God. Thank you Jesus for ever setting us straight. Resist the categories; embrace the Lord!