WORD 2day: Wednesday, 2nd week in Ordinary time
January 19, 2022: 1 Samuel 17:32-33,37,40-51; Mark 3: 1-6
We see today in the first reading the courage of the young David who chooses to fight the Philistines, in order to liberate God's people from fear and slavery. And the reason for the courage is given by the young lad himself: I come in the name of the Lord.
The Gospel presents to us Jesus who takes on the oppressive system of the Scribes and the Pharisees and questions them about their choice! Whether they choose good or evil, whether they choose life or death, whether they choose to liberate people or keep them under fear and slavery!
Be it David in the first reading or Jesus in the Gospel, their choice to do good and their courage to manifest that choice openly came from the choice they had made for God. Anyone who really chooses God will choose good by all means, come what may! If someone claims to choose God but does not choose good, it is an ample reason to suspect the choice.
Let us choose God, and the easiest way to manifest that is to choose good, in all ways!