Hebrews 6:10-20 / Mark 2:23-28
An organization or a company has a set of procedures or practices to follow.
This is to ensure that operations will be orderly and processes will be adhered to.
People who want to join the organization or company will need to abide by these procedures and practices.
In a similar sense, a religion also has its own precepts, and the Church also has her own precepts.
Those precepts help us to know what we need to do as expressions of our faith.
As the 1st reading puts it, we need some precepts to follow so that we could go on showing the same earnestness to the end, to the perfect fulfillment of our hopes, never growing careless, but imitating those who have the faith and the perseverance to inherit the promises.
In other words, we want to inherit the promises of God and so the precepts are there to teach and guide us.
But at the same time, Jesus teaches in the gospel, that the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath.
And He says that He is master even of the sabbath.
So we follow the precepts because we need some guidance and direction.
And it must all lead to Jesus our Master.
May Jesus teach us the meaning of the precepts of our faith, so that we will do God’s will and do what is for the good of others.