Priorities….



[Mark 2:1-5]

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."



I find it interesting that Jesus didn’t rail on these guys for the vandalism that they had just committed. I’m sure the owner of the house couldn’t have had a smile on his face as he watched his roof get destroyed. It doesn’t even appear that this paralytic’s friends asked the owner permission to tear his roof up.

In fact, I get the crazy notion that all of this pleased Jesus when he saw their faith. It’s not a notion. The scripture says as much! Jesus knows what’s important. So did this guy's friends. They forsook the trivial and temporal for the eternal. Gray areas? Exceptions to the rule? I don’t know. Your guess would be as good as mine. Sometimes there are things that are unclear in the Word just to force us to listen to his Spirit; a Spirit who is not the author of confusion (that’s the devil’s job), in whom is no variableness or shadow of change, who is the author of liberty, and who is by nature designed to be our comforter.

If I find myself one day violating some copyright law in order to print Bibles or Bible passages in some remote country, I’ll feel fine in my conscious on judgment day. God knows what is important.