Jesus healed a woman. It was the Sabbath.

The local religious leader was angry. He said people wanting healing should seek it on one of the other six days of the week.

Jesus reproved him:

“The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?” (Luke 13:15).

The leader was being terribly inconsistent, and Jesus pointed it out.

There are times our inconsistencies are that and no more.

And there are times when our inconsistencies are something far worse — hypocrisy.

When I judge my inconsistency harshly…if I see it mirrored in the life of another, I’m being a hypocrite. Just like that leader.

That’s too easy to do.

I’m glad to have read this passage this morning. I needed the reminder.

from Luke 13:6

A little bit more from Luke 13: No Exceptions