Today we have the familiar story of David and Goliath. The true proportions of each person involved may have been a bit exaggerated in the telling of the story – but it is clear that Goliath outsized David on many levels. The facts of this story are another in a long line of examples of how God the Father shows that he is faithful to and helpful to those who trust in him and who walk and live in his power and presence.
In this situation God is the rock in David's hand. And he can be the rock in our own – when we need him - to deal with oversized, bullying and unpleasant foes of every kind.
In the gospel passage we see Jesus vying with the religious leaders of his time and place (the self-appointed bullies and unpleasant foes) and he lobs at them a rock of his own logic and words: "Is it lawful to do good rather than evil on the Sabbath?" (he asks them.) They couldn't answer him! And so Jesus zeros in on their foreheads and throws the rock of his healing: "Stretch out your hand" he tells the man whose hand was withered – and he stretched it – and was cured!
May we trust that God can be our "rock" of refuge" – our fortress, our stronghold, our deliverer, who subdues those who need to be subdued- so that we can, in freedom and joy, respond to the love that God the Father has to show us!
Blessed be the Lord, my rock!
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