Jesus, you call us to follow you.
You want to be light for us in our darkness. You want to change our gloom to become like midday. You want to be our strength. You want to give us the living water so that we may grow and flourish. You want us to be homesteads for your very presence.
We want this Jesus. We want your light in our lives. But it seems that we do not want it enough. On the Sabbath we follow, not you, but our own pursuits. From there it is a quick step to oppression and malicious speech. Forgetting you and forgetting the hungry and afflicted go hand in hand.
But you desire us. You do not abandon us. We walk in every direction but the right one. We walk every way but yours. But even as we get lost in the darkness you call us back. You invite us to follow.
He said to him, “Follow me.”
You are always ready to welcome us. You are good and forgiving, abounding in kindness to all who call upon you. Even if we are tax collectors and sinners you still come and eat and drink with us as you do with Levi. We are the sick who need you, our Divine Physician. On our own we wander and quickly lose our way. "Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth." You are happy to teach us. You show how to follow your way. You do this for our sakes so that we may experience true blessing.
If you honor it by not following your ways,
seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice—
Then you shall delight in the LORD,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
You teach us to delight in you. When we do we follow you with ease, riding on the heights of the earth.
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