To behold the Lord in the Ordinary!

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 4th week in Ordinary time

February 4, 2026 - 2 Samuel 24:2,8-17; Mark 6: 1-6

Falling into sin, giving into our imperfections, falling short of what is expected of us, are all common human experiences. The experience becomes truly problematic, when we have fallen and we do not wish to admit it or we are not ready 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. But only to know and acknowledge that it has already gone out of hand. 

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. We just take things for granted and push things aside without paying the attention that they deserve, because we are used to them, because we have always seen them, because they are "nothing new" to us. 

The ordinariness of Jesus was an obstacle for the people to accept the great things that he was upto - we see that in the Gospel today. For us today, 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. We better resolve to be ready and eager to behold the presence of the Lord in the ordinariness of our days.