WORD 2day: Tuesday, Second week in Ordinary time
God's choice of David is a typical indication of a fact that is repeatedly accentuated in the Old Testament - that God is the Lord of history!
When the people of Israel were adamant of having a king of their own, they soon learnt how mistaken they were, with their experience of Saul. But God knew how to write straight through those crooked lines, and God alone knew. He chose a little shepherd boy and raised him to be God's beloved king and in his lineage brought the Saviour into the world.
God broke conventions, the way the world saw things, the way the world judged things, the way the world prioritised values. God proved that, God is always beyond all laws and conventions, and that God was the real Lord of the world and its history!
Jesus, the Son of God, had to do the same to prove to those around him that there was something new happening in history... that God has visited them! Being prisoners of our own conventions and petty rules and regulations, and our prejudiced ideas and prefixed thinking, let us not miss the Lord who is present with us, every day and every moment, sharing every ordinary moment of our life - because, God, the Lord of history, is with us!
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