Luke 6:10-11. On the Sabbath, Jesus heals a man with a withered hand, but the scribes and Pharisees are filled with fury and discuss what they might do to Jesus.

Sometimes the word "but" seems a bit incongruous, but (haha!) we have to look to what it is trying to tell us. There is no word in the Bible without significance. Luke could have written that Jesus healed the man and the scribes and Pharisees were filled with fury, but he used the word "but." I think that word here shows how little the scribes and Pharisees are concerned with this man and his suffering. "But", unlike "and", gives little weight to what precedes it. "And" makes both parts of the sentence feel equal - this happened and that happened. "But" dismisses the first part of the sentence, making it less important in light of what comes after.

Here, the most important thing is what comes before the "but" - another human being was suffering and his Creator healed him in an instant. How utterly amazing!! The mindset of the scribes and Pharisees, though, is to see this miracle as a cause for fury and retribution. It makes no sense at all, but we see this same behavior all the time. We often see some bigger picture "good", such as environmentalism; protection of our health or wealth; relationships with those we love; etc., as overshadowing the good of our fellow man. When we feel what seems like righteous indignation at another's objectively good act, or at a person we know to be a good person who is not acting thw way we think they should act, we should look to our motivations. Are we placing some other good ahead of the good of our neighbor?

God goes out of His way to protect His little ones, but often we are looking right past them, and only see what we think is a much more important issue. We then can get angry at God (or our fellow man) for not addressing that issue, and seeming to place more importance on individual people, instead.