Do Good Any Way

But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, “There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”

But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him?”

“And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.

Luke 13:14-17

When someone is doing something good for people there are always critics.  If you don’t think so, start a project to send clothes and supplies to poor people in third world countries.  Critics will come out of the walls.  Just ask Jason Sadler who set a goal of collecting 1,000,000 shirts for Africa in 2010.  Critics argue that people like him are destroying the economies of poor countries.     

The critics are not so excited when it comes to getting out their wallets and investing in businesses in third world countries and making sure the workers are paid wages high enough so that they can purchase the products they make.  Not to mention taking financial risks in countries where there are civil wars and massive groups of refugees on the run who are broke and homeless and have no money to buy food let alone clothing.  Will letting them go naked protect the economies in those countries?

Jesus experienced this same thing when He was healing people on Sunday. 

Why should we expect less when we are doing the work God has given us to do?

Mother Teresa said, “… Do good anyway.” 

And we will.