Great is you mercy, O Lord

What struck me about today’s reading was the first reading where David found out that his son Absalom had been killed. This child who was trying to kill him.

Absalom was seeking to kill his father, without reciprocation…Ironically, Absalom himself was killed.  Where was the victory for David ???  No, there was deep mourning.  Poor David was inconsolable, in sheer pain, pining for him.  Years earlier, David heard the prophesied words of the curse that was laid upon him for his grievous sin and though he was forgiven there were repercussions.   This brought me into a deep reflection. 

David didn’t want to fight back the living word of God’s just punishment. Here are the words:

Thus says the LORD God of Israel:
'The sword shall never depart from your house, 
because you have despised me 
and have taken the wife of Uriah to be your wife.'
Thus says the LORD:
'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house.
I will take your wives while you live to see it, 
and will give them to your neighbor.
He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.
You have done this deed in secret, 
but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, 
and with the sun looking down.'"

How culpable was Absalom when Nathan foretold that David’s wives would openly be unfaithful to him???  Handsome charming Absalom, he slept with those concubines.  He was considered one of David’s favorite at an earlier time. Maybe this coordinates with the David’s betrayal to Uriah who was a loyal soldier in David’s army.  David slept with his wife and got her pregnant and later had Uriah killed in battle.  David was treacherous and he knew he had it coming…but from his own flesh and blood???   Truly painful.  
Look at the problems that were incurred in his own home and this is due to the one sin of adultery that snowballed.

• One brother raped his half sister.
• Another brother killed the raper half brother to avenge his full sister.
• The avenging brother also wanted to kill his own father.​

In totally 3 children died up to that point.  I’m including the baby produced through the sin of Bathsheba and David.
How many layers of generational sin are we dealing with in our own lives?  How about our children for our sins???   Because of sins of our fathers up the generations…we have a proclivity to sin but what is our level of culpability?  Only God knows this.
In other words, our children inherit the bad actions we leave…( up 3 or 4 generations..check scriptures)

But here’s the mercy of God:

“Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments…”.  Deuteronomy 7

Now the saving grace….
So the Gospel talks of Jesus resurrecting  Jairus’s young daughter.  He heals the woman with the bleeding issue for 12 years.   Love and Mercy came in His appointed time.  He told us to be perfect for our Heavenly Father is perfect.  He’s saying be Love.  Love is perfect, it atones for sins, many, many sins.  You can pray, you can fast- but loving people all around you, loving the souls in purgatory enough to get them out, loving your enemies until they are enemies no more, loving your daily duty….that resurrects you from the place that sin left you AND on that path you spread the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.   That changes the whole negative generational sin gameplay.    

God does throws out the weights and balance.  He replaces it with MERCY…

JUMP INTO THE OCEAN OF MERCY!!!
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