DAVID lectio (1 Sam 16.1-13)
16, [1] The Lord said to Samuel: "As long as you weep over Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill with oil your horn and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for among her children, I chose a king. " [2] Samuel replied: "How can I go? Saul will know and kill me." The Lord said, "Take a heifer with you and say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. [3] Invite Jesse to the sacrifice. Then I will show you what to do and you shall anoint him I'll tell you." [4] Samuel did what the Lord had commanded him and came to Bethlehem, the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and asked, "It 'a good omen your coming?". [5] He said: "It 'a good omen. I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. We will purify you, then come with me to sacrifice." He purify Jesse and his sons and invited them to sacrifice. [6] When they arrived, he looked at Eliab and said, 'And' maybe before the Lord's anointed? ". [7] The Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or his height. I have rejected, because I do not watch that looks at the man. The man looks at appearances but the Lord looks at the heart. " [8] Jesse did come Abinadab and then introduced him to Samuel, but they said: "Not even he falls on the choice of the Lord." [9] Jesse made Shammah pass and he said: "Neither he falls on the choice of the Lord." [10] Jesse presented seven of his sons to Samuel, and Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these." [11] Samuel asked Jesse, "Are these all the young people?". Jesse replied: "There is still the smallest is tending the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send for him, because we do not sit down until he arrives here." [12] he sent and had him come. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and handsome looks. The Lord said, "Rise and anoint him: is he." [13] Samuel took the horn oil and anointed in the midst of his brothers, and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day on. Samuel then got up and went back to Rama.
In these verses is told the consecration of David, son of Jesse, King of Israel. Looking at the context of this passage, following the example of the prophet Samuel, let us ask: why a king, when we have God as king? (Cf. 1 Sam 8:6).
The response we have in the promise that God made to Abraham to make it "nations" to give birth to him the "king" (Genesis 17:6). As well, of having a king like other nations (1 Samuel 8:5), then a request that seems to fall in civil rights. God responds by allowing the Prophet to fulfill the request (1 Sam 8.7-9) and here on the recommendation of the Lord, Samuel anoints King Saul "leader over Israel," with the specific task of liberating the people of God from the hands of the enemy (1 Sam 10 , 1). Following the Alliance infidelity, God tells the prophet Samuel to anoint David secretly, and with this election, start a particular fund in the history of Salvation in the Book of Samuel.
Vocation of David has elements common to the vocation of Joshua (see 27.18 to 20 Nm). But more than calling the right word here is 'divine election', revealed to David by Samuel. To understand the Divine Election We verbs: to provide (ra'a) (v.1b) and explicitly contained in the verb choice (bahar) (vv. 8-10).
The first verb (ra'a) indicates the action of God, that looks about to try the service, and identification, reserves for itself (v. 1b).
The second verb (bahar) is a technical term in the Bible is meant to indicate the divine election of the king, even before that of popolo.C 'is something special that happens in the selection, a practice that God is constantly monitoring the history of salvation, so that "No one has to boast before him" (cf. 1 Cor 1:29): the line of blessing will never go through primogeniture, just think of Jacob preferred to Esau (Genesis 27), Ephraim, Manasseh (Gen 48.14-19), Judah, Reuben (Gen 49.8 to 12). This also happens in the family of Jesse, David preferred to Eliab. God entrusts the task of making a salvation to people less qualified human level (cf. Judges 6:11) because God's goodness is manifested clearly. chosen for this David person of great consideration in front of his family, "For shame the strong and to reduce to nothing things that are" (1 Cor 1.27 to 29).
Vocation of David is also a royal consecration, a shepherd-king able to govern his people with wisdom and justice (cf. Ps 78.70 to 72). David is the anointed one, an expression that indicates the close relationship that exists between God and his king. Entered the house of Jesse, Samuel and watching the children, looking Eliab, God asks: "Is it before the Lord's anointed?" (V. 6).
I think this is a question that everyone must get before God to ask if we are called by Him, if we are his devoted, if we are his chosen ones.
To understand, we orient our reflection on the person of David on three tracks:
1. David is a pastor. Think David Shepherd takes us back to his people pastors, faith, and therefore, to Abraham, the father in the faith. To say that David is a pastor reminds us of the prophecy one, once invested, will be named new pastor of the people. It should be noted that David will rule for forty years (cf. 2 Sam 5:4), a number that returns frequently in the Bible to express the idea of \u200b\u200bperfection that only God has his compimento.Abbiamo then a reference to the true Pastor: "I am the true shepherd. The true shepherd lays down his life for his sheep ... And I have other sheep, and I have to feed, there shall be one flock and one shepherd "(Jn 10, 11-16). The evangelist Matthew tells of the true shepherd who is also "Son of David, son of Abraham" (Mt 1:1)
2. David is taken of the flock. "So says the Lord, "I am that I took from the pasture and went after the sheep, because you were the head of my people Israel" (2 Sam 7.8). This shows a clear and constant action of God, God's call comes when we are in the prime of life, in full our commitments. We can compare in this regard, the call of Gideon, farmer smart, call Samson, soft-hearted adventurer etc.Dio respect for the person with his character, his past, but also the profession and the smaller aspirations of each part the call to labor: David from a shepherd is a shepherd of men, as well as Peter catching a fish fishers of men.
3. David ... the last, the more piccolo.Dio when calls do not look at who we are, what race we belong, where the family are the greatest, ie those who have reserved a special place. God goes before them and goes over and choose the last, the smallest is with the sheep, the one who is helpless and inesperto.In these three points we immediately notice the "strangeness" of God, acting in a way that contrasts umano.Infatti with the municipality to act, we act when we moved and we choose, that is motivated and attracted by the value that we take another reflection: his virtue, his strength, his courage, his intelligence, his skill or his wisdom.
is not the way God reveals the secret of his actions: he calls his prophet not to look at all this (v. 7). What matters to God is not what it appears and, appearing, it offers the look and the judgments of others, but the other in his otherness naked on which his waking amore.L 'teaching we get from this divine election is not God has preferences, thus excluding some and accepting others, but on the contrary, as he bends over freedom of love for free on all saying, "I love you."
The size of each person, for the Bible, is being "you" that God establishes You and with his right to freedom of response he gives his love that is not sterile, but it is always effective, "How, in fact, the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth, without having bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to eat, so the word goes out from my mouth does not return to me empty, without having done what I want and having achieved that for which I sent it " (Is 55.10 to 11).
In this freedom, including the election of David turns to love, although in the second Book of Samuel, the man makes a mistake, he repents, starts again. In all this we find in of us love to guide us in the streets of life, the face of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our face to love. question
1. The man is constitutionally biblical Responsorial man. How do you start in front of you that God is calling you every day to make a decision before Him? 2. you afraid of not being loved, of being rejected, rejected because helpless, inexperienced?
3. David was chosen not for themselves but for each other. Even you feel called to each other?
prayer
Me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and observe it to the fine.Dammi understanding, that I may observe your law and keep it with all the cuore.Dirigimi the path of your commands, because it is my gioia.Piega the my heart to your decrees and not to selfish guadagno.Distogli my eyes from vain things, give me life in your via.Allontana the insult that terrifies me, because thy judgments are buoni.Ecco, I thy commandments; In your justice give me life (Psalm 119,33-37.39-40).
actio
try to bring into their daily lives these words St. Gregory of Nazianzus: "He looks seriously yourself, your being, your destiny, where you come from and where you posarti, seeks to know if life is what you live or if there is something more. "
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