In the first reading, we hear about Davie and his son Absalom. Family problems and family crises are as old as humanity.
In politics people talk about loyalty. The community can give their loyalty to a leader, and they can also transfer the loyalty to a new leader when they feel that things are not moving in the right direction.
Such was the situation between King David who had lost the confidence of his people, and they transferred their loyalty to his son Absalom.
David ran away for his dear life. The family drama will play out in the course of time.
In the gospel, we see any human tragedy. The man who was possessed by unclean spirit and who live in the cemetery met Jesus and his disciples. The man had suffered tremendously.
“The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain. He had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.”
When the man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself before him, crying out in a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!”
We all need freedom. Freedom from spiritual, physical, and mental bondage.
This is the reason Jesus can. To liberate us from this bondage, to see us free.
As Isaiah prophesied: “The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me;
He has sent me to bring good news to the afflicted, to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, release to the prisoners, To announce a year of favor from the LORD”
May we enjoy the favor of the Lord.
Have a blessed Week.
