Ate of it, and shared it with his companions

Col 1,21-23; Ps 53; Lk 6,1-5
7 SEPTEMBER

Jesus distinguishes the moral law from the ritual law with true wisdom of the Holy Spirit. But also what is the will of his Father in relation to the moral Law and what is instead an addition of men. It is the will of the Lord God that nothing is added to his law and nothing is taken away. Removing or adding makes the Law A law of men and not of God.

“Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. In your observance of the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I enjoin upon you, you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it (Dt 4,1-2).

Who is upright and pure at heart, who seeks the truth and loves it always knows how to transform every ritual law into the greatest good for man. But he also knows what the Lord wants and what he does not want, what comes from God and what comes from men. Ahimelech, priest of the Lord, knows how to use the offering bread according to truth.

Then David departed on his way, while Jonathan went back into the city. David went to Ahimelech, the priest of Nob, who came trembling to meet him and asked, “Why are you alone? Is there no one with you?” David answered the priest: “The king gave me a commission and told me to let no one know anything about the business on which he sent me or the commission he gave me. For that reason I have arranged a meeting place with my men. Now what have you on hand? Give me five loaves, or whatever you can find.” But the priest replied to David, “I have no ordinary bread on hand, only holy bread; if the men have abstained from women, you may eat some of that.” David answered the priest: “We have indeed been segregated from women as on previous occasions. Whenever I go on a journey, all the young men are consecrated – even for a secular journey. All the more so today, when they are consecrated at arms!” So the priest gave him holy bread, for no other bread was on hand except the showbread which had been removed from the Lord’s presence and replaced by fresh bread when it was taken away. One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, and he was Saul’s chief henchman. David then asked Ahimelech: “Do you have a spear or a sword on hand? I brought along neither my sword nor my weapons, because the king’s business was urgent.” The priest replied: “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Vale of the Terebinth, is here (wrapped in a mantle) behind an ephod. If you wish to take that, take it; there is no sword here except that one.” David said: “There is none to match it. Give it to me!” (1Sam 21.1-10).

Who loves the Lord with a humble, meek and pure heart is always helped by the Lord to walk in his truth. Ahimelech is a priest of great wisdom. He knows that the sacred breads are a sign before the Lord. But the sign can also be removed, but the meaning of them cannot be removed. The people is always before God. Today, however, the loaves are used to nourish persons of the Lord’s people and he uses them for this purpose. If he had not been a priest with a simple, meek and humble heart, rich in faith and charity, he would have left David and his family to die of hunger. If these Pharisees were with the humble, pure and meek heart, full of love for the Lord, the Holy Spirit would have filled them with wisdom and encouraged the disciples rather than mortifying them by accusing them of transgressing the Sabbath. But they do not want to strike the disciples, but their Master. Their intent is only one: depriving Jesus of all credibility among the people. Theirs is a highly diabolical end.

While he was going through a field of grain on a Sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those (who were) with him were hungry? (How) he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions.” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

When the spirit of evil is in the heart it is a sign that the heart has been taken from God and handed over to sin. If the heart is in sin, it cannot think according to God. God is not in the heart. The heart thinks according to the thoughts of the guests that are in it. If there is Satan, we think as Satan, if there is sin from sin, if there is God from God.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that our heart is a worthy dwelling of our God.