[ Today's Readings ]
‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance,
we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’
God is providing us a soundtrack and calling us to dance accordingly. We need to listen to the music. We need to drink it in like a tree near a running river drinks in water.
We have a tendency to focus on the right things at the wrong times. We mourn when we ought to dance and dance when we ought to mourn. We fast when we ought to feast and feast when we ought to fast. We try to figure out when to do what by our own wisdom. But our own wisdom is not up to the task.
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said,
‘He is possessed by a demon.’
The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said,
‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard,
We need God's wisdom. It is not a wisdom that we can contain in ourselves. God's wisdom is a music to which we must constantly be attentive. It is living and active. This is why it can speak to any circumstance. Our wisdom, such as it is, can't see the big picture. It is finite, static, and formulaic. It is not enough.
Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
God's law is not something we learn once and then simply practice. It is water which we must constantly drink. We cannot say, 'I've had a drink. It is good. I know what it tastes like and what it feels like. I don't need to drink anymore.' We must constantly drink from the stream of God's wisdom. It quenches thirst for all precisely because the supply is inexhaustible.
I, the LORD, your God,
teach you what is for your good,
and lead you on the way you should go.
If you would hearken to my commandments,
your prosperity would be like a river,
and your vindication like the waves of the sea;
We follow you LORD Jesus. Show us the light of life!
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