Deuteronomy 23:15-25; Deuteronomy 24:1-6
Let us consider Jesus teaching the disciples and the crowds. Through the commandments of Moses which the Pharisees kept to the letter, He wants to make them understand God’s thought, His wisdom, His love. It was so, for example, when the disciples were picking ears of corn as they passed through the fields on a sabbath day, or when He was being questioned slyly on the subject of divorce (Matthew 12:1-8; Matthew 19:3-9). Let us apply ourselves in reading these chapters to discover in them the same divine wisdom, the same love. Besides an absolute righteousness there shines a perfect goodness. The rights of the owners are maintained without the brotherly services of charity losing anything by it. Only God can establish such a balance and it is very important to recognise this in our world which is always ready to sway to one side or the other. The child of God does not have to choose between different political, economic and social systems. For him these questions are resolved in advance. He has no doctrine other than to submit to the will of his Father, and that will is not to be found in the newspapers nor in the books of men but in the "word of God, which liveth and abideth forever" (1 Peter 1:23).