Day 220 - Logically Speaking

📖Daily Reading

Luke 7 

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📝 Reflection  

Luke 7: 33-35

  “For John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’ But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it.”

 

This verse highlights how Jesus traps the Pharisees using their own logic. Gotta love it! Because technically the pharisees are not ‘wrong’, they just refuse to see or look at the heart of the matter which requires opening their own eyes and heart.  Perspective and your starting premise is so important when using logic. The pharisees are only concerned about the ‘rule’ of law and of course miss not only the spirit of the law but the miracle of Jesus, God incarnate standing before them in the flesh. 

Let’s back up for a minute to the beginning of chapter 7. This sets up the chapter for how and from what perspective Jesus wants us to think and speak logically. There is a Roman solider who has a highly valued slave who has become deathly ill. He sends some respected Jewish elders to Jesus to ask him to come heal his servant. Jesus goes with them but before they arrive, the officer sends other friends to say ‘Lord, you don’t need to come in person, I am not even worthy of such an honor. Just say the word from where you are and heal my servant and I know it will be done. I understand authority. I am under the authority of a superior officer and I do what he says. I too am a leader and those under my command obey my orders. We do not have to be in each others presence for the word of authority to be obey, people follow orders from authority as they are sent through various channels of communication. Jesus is astounded, this man is the first to truly demonstrate understanding in fact he says in vs9 “I tell you, I haven’t seen faith life this in all Israel!” When the officer’s friends return home they found the slave completely healed. 

This is the logic that we are to use - understand the authority of Jesus, the spirit of love and have faith and act accordingly. As it says above in vs. 35 “wisdom is show to be right by the lives of those who follow it”. The Pharisees who are so focused on the rules and letter of the law, that they ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’. There is a scene where Jesus is invited to the home of a pharisee to have dinner and a ‘woman of sin’ comes in behind him and gets down on the ground and sheds tears of gratitude on Jesus’s feet and anoint and kisses his feet with perfume and wipes the tears from his feet with her hair. Wow, just wow. This is so intimate and vulnerable and humbling. His dinner host is concerned for Jesus and him getting ‘contaminated’ by this woman and her sin. Also, by his logic the Pharisee is questioning Jesus’s legitimacy of being a prophet, if he really was a prophet he would know she was a woman of sin and therefor would not allow her to be touching him like this. 

Jesus reading his thoughts says let me ask you a question: vs 41-47 “A man loaned money to two people - 500 pieces of silver to one and 50 pieces to the other. But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. How do you supposed love him more after that?” Simon answered, “I supposed the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.” “That’s right,” Jesus said. Then he turn to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. I tell you, her sins- and they are many - have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.”

Logically speaking we need to know the end not just the starting point, our perspective, but also our end ‘goal’. In God’s kingdom and economy it is always, always love 💖. Big Love, eternal love, beyond our own self interest love - but paradoxically when we can love this way it is in our own best interest! It is wise, it is the best logic, it shows it self in the lives of those who follow it!  Do you want to be logically right in God’s eyes or mans?  If these pharisees were able to see their own behavior and the flaws in their logic they would have realized that even though they were technically right according to the law, they were guilty of greater sin 100x than those they were holding in contempt as sinners!  How often are you and I doing the same thing?

I know I am so so guilty of this, thinking of myself as righteous and that my sin is not quite as bad as another’s… sin is sin and thinking yours is less automatically makes it greater does it not?!? This is pride, arrogance, self righteousness, and often results in turning a blind eye to those in need in a ‘self justified’ rationa’lie’zed way! 

✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt 

 What logic are you using, human or God's?

📖Tomorrows Reading

 Luke 8

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