Response
Daily
reading: Mark 1:1-20
Friday
January 15, 2016
Focus
passage: Right away, they left their nets
and followed him … At that very moment he called them. They followed him, leaving their father
Zebedee in the boat with the hired workers.” Mark 1:18 and 20.
Something
about the good news, the gospel, demands an immediate response. It calls for urgency, otherwise it is just an
interesting notion, something that only resides in the head to be pondered and
either dismissed or acted on or build upon.
There
does exist within the text some implied cultural understanding that can be lost
on a 21st century audience.
Teachers or rabbis as they were known did not go out and recruit
students or followers.
Students
would apply and if found worthy or capable, then the invitation to learn under
the rabbi would be extended to the student.
Some scholars say that the phrase “follow me” would be the words of
invitation which if that is the case would lend more insight into what sort of
following Jesus was extending to the four men on the shore.
Prayer: God help me to realize your presence in my
life. May I respond by setting myself on
the path to follow you. Amen.
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