Be Like Us

 Have you ever been around those who are always looking for fault rather than the good? I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Well I noticed this about the Pharisees, there were always asking questions and overlooking the good before their eyes. In  Mark 2:16 (KJV) And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him (Jesus) eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he (Jesus) eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?  This group of scribes and Pharisees when they saw Jesus eating with this group of what they called sinners they had questions. What in the world is He thinking? My question to those Pharisees is why not? My mother, bless her heart, would go to the doctor and when the doctor would ask her how she felt she would say “just fine.” People don’t go to doctors who feel fine. That’s what Jesus said “They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” I have never stopped at my doctor's office when I felt good and had no fever, sore throat or pain. But these Pharisees wanted to know why Jesus would associate Himself with such people as that. Then in  Mark 2:18 (KJV) And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? Why aren’t Your disciples doing like us? Isn’t that what they were really saying? Aren’t you glad Jesus wasn’t trying to be like everybody else? Then in Mark 2:24 (KJV) And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? These Pharisees never saw the positive; they only saw the negative. Four times in Mark 2 they questioned  “Why doth this man”  “How is it that” “Why do the”  “why do they.” All would have been fine had the questions been to learn but that wasn’t the case at all.  They weren’t trying to learn, they were saying be like us!