# 279 Today’s Living Word comes from Mark 2:25,26 “But He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: "how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?"
Jesus gives the Pharisees something to chew on and it wasn't showbread. He says, “you are upset with My disciples because they have violated the ordinances associated with the Sabbath, but what about David?
There was a time when he and his men were hungry and he went into the temple and ate the showbread. The showbread was twelve loaves that were placed on a gold covered table in the Holy Place every Sabbath. When they were removed they were to be eaten only by the priests according to God’s CEREMONIAL Law.
In this instance, the bread had served it’s sacred purpose and was available so David and his men ate it. It would be like some very hungry people coming to your church on a communion Sunday and all you had to give them to eat was the communion elements. What would you do? Mercy demands that you give them what you have.
God, in His mercy was okay with that, how much more should we be okay with it? James 2:13 says, “Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
I’m Duane Matz and that’s today’s Living Word.
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