Do Good Anyway

 

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. People can make you question if what you are doing is right, even though you know what you are doing is right.  You may be serving meals to poor people or giving shoes and coats to children or helping people pay their electric bills or any of a hundred other things that people do everyday to help needy people.  Then BANG!  There they are: The critics trying to discourage you.  

 

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.