WORD 2day: Wednesday, 2nd week in Ordinary time
January 20, 2021: Hebrews 7: 1-3,15-17; Mark 3: 1-6
The readings today speak of two religious disciplines that mattered much to the Old Testament people of God: the practice of tithing and the observance of the Sabbath. Both of them taken in their legalistic sense, would be practices very simple but of less significance. A tenth of your possession given grudgingly, or as in the example of Ananias and Saphira (Acts 5) trying to make it as less affecting as possible, will bear no spiritual fruit.
Keeping Sabbath as a day of dead and insensitive inactivity, instead of holy and active worship to God, will be of no spiritual value. The key to right understanding of true worship is given here - not giving of what we have, but giving of what we are: a true and total self giving.