"RULES ARE MADE TO SERVE GOD AND MAN"

 18th January 2022

TUESDAY, SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

(1 Sm 16: 1-13); (Mk 2: 23-28)

"RULES ARE MADE TO SERVE GOD AND MAN"

Dear faithful people in Christ, today as we paid attention to the expressions of the Lord in the Scriptures, we are called to recollect the Lord's love for all of us, and how He had tried to thoroughly take care of our persistence. He sent us His dedicated workers to help lead and guide us in our excursion through life. He won't let us to stroll down some unacceptable way without direction, and for that, He gave us all pioneers and lords, and at last, His own Son, Who came into our reality to be our Shepherd and King.

In our first understanding today, we heard the story from the Book of the prophet Samuel, as a continuation of what we have heard before this and last week with respect to the activities of Samuel and how Saul, the primary lord that God had designated to lead individuals of Israel had resisted Him and driven individuals into some unacceptable way through transgression. Hence, God advised Samuel to observe the one whom He had decided to be the replacement of Saul as the King of Israel. David was one of the numerous children of Jesse, and truth be told he was the most youthful among every one of the children of Jesse.

The prophet Samuel came to visit Jesse and he came to get down on each of Jesse's children to see whom among them had been chosen by God to be the new King of Israel. At first, he imagined that the most seasoned one among them would be the one picked by God because of his appearance and height, yet God said to Samuel that He didn't pick by appearances, however by heart. At last, Samuel blessed David as the King of Israel, as God's picked chief for His kin, and David would later on end up being a most steadfast worker of God, and keeping in mind that he committed errors and blundered in a few events, yet, he actually adored God above all else, and he controlled over individuals of God with equity and ideals. He lamented his transgressions, missteps and blames, and apologized from them, putting forth the attempts to offer to set things right for those botches, frequently lowering himself before God.

David genuinely cherished God, and he additionally adored the partners who was going with him. As referenced in our Gospel section today, during the showdown between the Lord Jesus and the Pharisees in regards to the Law of the Sabbath, the Lord Jesus referenced how during his experience on the run from King Saul with a portion of his colleagues, David took of the bread from the bread of offering that were saved distinctly for the High Priest, and even likewise gave some of them for his men to eat, as they were all exceptionally ravenous.

 The Consecrated Bread comprised of 12 portions put on the brilliant table external the holiest place in the Tent of Meeting. It was a unique proposing to God and was set out new every Sabbath. It was to be eaten exclusively by the esteemed minister and his children (cf. Lev 24:5-9). All things considered, without other food, David and his men ate it (cf. 1 Sam 21:1-6). Jesus referred to this episode to act as an illustration of how runs, even undeniable ones, were not planned to overshadow human requirements. Jesus lets us know something significant with regards to divine guidelines: God made them to serve man, not to administer over man. In Jesus, God shows us that the center of a legitimate human existence is love. The individual who loves, Paul composed, satisfies the law. We could say that the main explanation the law of God exists is to situate us toward an existence of affection. To adore is to go into the heavenly association of the Holy Spirit, to stay in the timeless love of the Father for the Son and of the Son for the Father. The Sabbath recognition had become such a lot of human activity situated, that the Pharisees neglected to moor their life in God. The greeting of Jesus to the audience members is to pull together their consideration from their own practices to the person who is the Lord of the Sabbath. The test is to move our otherworldliness from egotism to God-centeredness. Individuals are a higher priority than frameworks and organizations. Individuals are a higher priority than customs and religion. God cherishes all individuals, even the ones we treat like they don't make any difference. At the point when we act inadequately toward God's loved ones, then, at that point, we are acting similarly with God. The Pharisees in the Gospel gave more significance to ceremonies, in the deal neglecting to adore others, to perceive the requirements of others. God isn't satisfied with ceremonies performed without adoration; he is satisfied rather with the individuals who are prepared to communicate their affection for other.

As Christians we all are called to have supportable confidence and love for God, in the way that King David had carried on with his life, in affection and compliance to God, just as in his adoration for his kindred siblings and sisters. We ought not resemble a large number of the Pharisees who neglected to cherish their kindred brethren, disregarded the situation of the eager and the destitute, and segregated those whom they considered to be heathens and insidious, while applauding themselves and putting themselves on a platform to acquire popularity and magnificence for their own advantages. This isn't how it affects us to be Christians.

Let all of us in this manner recharge our confidence in the Lord, and do our absolute best to serve the Lord in our own abilities and in creating utilization of the open doors that God has given us. Keep in mind, siblings and sisters, that our confidence expects us to go out there and be motivation to others in confidence, to show certifiable cause and love, concern and empathy for the individuals who need our assistance and friendship. Leave us alone genuinely devoted in every way, and follow the Lord for appearances and convention, however commit ourselves completely to Him. May God favor all of us, presently and consistently, evermore? Amen.