Luke 5:30-32–And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

When you consider the term “narrow-minded” as a way to describe someone, it is generally a person who is not open to reasoning that is unfamiliar to them.  Someone who sees through a “lens” of life that only encompasses the way they think or understand.  Christians are usually labeled “narrow-minded” in believing that Jesus is the only way to God, but are we right in being narrow in such a way?

The Pharisees had a problem with being narrow-minded.  But it was with a man who claimed to be sent from God, sitting with sinners and tax collectors.  They could not understand how someone who claims godliness would “pollute” themselves with such people!

Yet the Pharisees in their arrogance proved what Jesus was coming to do, to save sinners, not the self-righteous!  The Pharisees did not see themselves as relating to sinners and being “sick”, nor did they see themselves relating to Jesus in needing Him as their Physician!  Yet they thought they were right to reject to Him…

These Pharisees were left with people who were like them, narrow and limited to what they thought was right.  Yet they were isolated from Jesus, and the relationships Jesus was developing in saving sinners for the Kingdom!  Everyone is narrow-minded in some form or another, but it is soul-saving to be narrow-minded for Christ sake and not our own!

In His Love, Ld