What kind of mercy is this?

Do we think that we are always the victim when things go wrong…. David didn’t. When his troubles came, he didn’t try to look at himself as the victim, rather he thought that he deserved what came to him…That’s exactly how it looks like in today’s mass readings.   We see that as favored as David was…he had still sinned grievously before God….  The curses he heaped upon himself were foretold as he realized how he offended God.  

Those words, years later, were coming to pass when his own son Absalom was hunting David down to kill him.  David wept with his companions as they ran from Absalom.  He didn’t even want to fight back, because he acknowledged his guilt and loved his son so much.    Even the irritating man (from Saul’s family line) following David’s band of men, who kept taunting David with curses and throwing stones while they were trying to deal with the Absalom situation.  Still David didn’t want that man harmed, saying that it’s probably God allowing this.

We hear from the psalm, the cry to God- a plea for help against all one’s surrounding enemies.  Yet the cry still has confidence because he knows that the Lord will come and help.  

That’s what I love about David, his confidence was more on God’s saving help than on his sinfulness.  

Jesus comes into the picture in time.  He sees the demoniac filled with legions of evil spirits.  The question isn’t about how he has sinned to allow the door opened to let the unclean in, or the family’s sinful history.  In an extraordinary act of compassion, Jesus comes to save this one from his sins and performs an exorcism on him by his authority.  Out goes legions of demons from this man that afflicted for years.


The former demoniac wants to go follow Jesus.  But Jesus prevents him because he wants him to show the mercy of God performed on him to the people of that region!  Jesus makes him an evangelist!!!!


So brothers and sisters, troubles we encounter are most probably our fault.  We should still trust in God to help us in his Merciful Love, Then the next step is to BRAG, BRAG, BRAG.  Brag about God, Brag about his saving grace, Brag about his endless mercy.  Why?  Your bragging about God will bring more into the fold!  We then all win!!!  
Thank you God for being who you are and loving us the way you do!


God bless you all!!!!