To behold the Lord in the Ordinariness of Life

WORD 2day: 31st January, 2018

Wednesday, 4th week in Ordinary Time

2 Sam 24: 2,8-17; Mk 6: 1-6

Falling into sin, giving into our imperfections, are a common human experience. The most problematic experience is when we have fallen and we do not want to get out of it. David was a chosen one of God. He was blessed with experiences and graces that no one else had been blessed with... but he falls and he falls repeatedly. 

When things go wrong and miseries come his way he realises his folly. The Lord's grace is ever present with us - but it is possible that we do not realise it or we refuse to behold it in our obstinacy. 

The ordinariness of Jesus was an obstacle for the people to accept the great things that he was upto. They were not ready to notice or behold anything divine in Jesus, because they knew him too well! They were fixated in their idea that the ordinariness in which God's glory was set to shine, did not appeal to them.

It is important that we learn to behold the Lord's graceful presence, in the ordinariness of our lives; if not, it will be too late when we realise it, as it happens to David. Let us resolve to be ready and eager to behold the presence of the Lord in the ordinariness of our days.