February 23, 2025: 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

David had the opportunity to end the threat that King Saul personally posed to him.  Yet David wouldn't take matters into his own hands, but took a much different approach of letting God mete out justice and instead holding himself to being merciful.

This story points ahead to what Christ calls us to do as His disciples.  We are called to reflect God's mercy in our interactions, remembering the highest example of mercy when God poured out His love for us when Christ was upon the Cross.

Now in light of the Paschal Mystery, we are transformed to be living beings, like St. Paul writes, to be beings who, like Christ, give life.  We respond to evil in the world with God's goodness that He pours into our hearts.