January 16 - Friday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.8:4-7,10-22; Ps.89:2,16-19; Mk.2:1-12) "We have never seen anything like this!" What the Lord can do, no one else is able to do – no king, no prophet, no priest. Though all may do in His name, nothing is done except through Him. He alone forgives sins; He alone heals. He alone fights our battles, for He alone rules over us. In asking Samuel to appoint a king over them, the Israelites reject the rule of God in their lives. If they but believed, the Lord would take care of all their concerns and they would keep all His blessings – their children, their animals, their land… as their own…
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