Dearest Goddaughter,
How many times have others doubted us in the same way that Saul was skeptical of David going up again the Philistine? How many times have other watched us, waiting for us to fail and fall on our face in the same way that the Pharisee watched Jesus in the synagogue? How do we respond?
We do what David did. We trust in God. David responded to Saul saying, "The Lord. . . will keep me safe." David's faith made a believer out of Saul because Saul replied, saying: "Go! the Lord will be with you." Moreover, to those who watch and wait for us to fail and fall, we respond by trusting in God. We move forward with the mission that God has given us, confident that he will not let us fall; but if we do, He is right there to pick us up.
Let us be like the man who had a withered hand and listen to what Jesus tells us and follow him. Jesus tells the man with the withered hand to come and he comes. Jesus tells the man with the withered hand to stretch out his hand and he stretches out his hand to Christ. His obedience is rewarded because Jesus heals him and restores his hand. Therefore, let us keep our eyes on Jesus and not on the challenge before us or the naysayers.
Love,
Bỏ Phúc
P.S. These are the readings for the day: 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 and Mk 3:1-6 (below).
. . .
Jesus entered the synagogue.
There was a man there who had a withered hand.
They watched Jesus closely
to see if he would cure him on the sabbath
so that they might accuse him.
He said to the man with the withered hand,
"Come up here before us."
Then he said to the Pharisees,
"Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil,
to save life rather than to destroy it?"
But they remained silent.
Looking around at them with anger
and grieved at their hardness of heart,
Jesus said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."
He stretched it out and his hand was restored.
The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel
with the Herodians against him to put him to death.
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