Picking corn or being picky

Have you ever felt called on the carpet for doing something wrong - and it was actually just a misunderstanding or someone being picky? Jesus and his disciples are put into a situation where they are "called on the carpet" for picking corn while walking along a path in their travels ( a custom that was permitted by farmers of the day - to keep travelers from going hungry). Take a look at this scripture....Matthew 12:1-8

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath."

Jesus is with you in those moments you feel misunderstood, accused and attacked - he's been there too!
Take a moment to thank God for his mercy today and remember God's mercy the next time you're "called on the carpet" - for something a simple a getting a snack.
Enjoy the path you're walking with Jesus and hold on to the joy a relationship with him provides.

Much Peace,
Lamont