Gospel Mark
3:1-6
Jesus
entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. They
watched Jesus closely to see if he would cure him on the Sabbath so that they
might accuse him. He said to the man with the withered hand, “Come up here
before us.” Then he said to the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to do good on the
sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?” But
they remained silent. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their
hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched
it out and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately took
counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.
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Reflection:
Do you
discriminate when you help?
To help
those who are in need is for all season; it is not strictly confined nor
enclosed to certain days or hours. As long as there are those who are in need
of our help, then we must help by all means for this is what God wants us to
do.
We see it
in the gospel today; there is this man with a withered hand but it so happen
that it was a Sabbath day. Did Jesus thought of not curing this man because it
is Sabbath day and His usual critics were closely monitoring Him?
No He did
not! He instead called the man and said: Come up here before us and He said
again: Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
We must
not be afraid to help regardless of who the person is and immaterial of the
circumstances that we are in. If we have the capacity to help by all means we
must help. But the reality of it all is this: Some of us help selectively, we
choose the person that we would help. Many of us specially help those who can
reciprocate the help that we’ve done; perhaps this is human nature.
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