Me:  Are you enjoying cooking?

Prodigal:  Yes, but my friend likes to tell me their preference.

Me:  What do they want?

Prodigal:  They said they like their steak so rare that they should just walk the meat through a hot room.

Me:  That is kinda risky, but people can choose their own preference.

 

Today’s reading comes from Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders

 

Once Saint Francis of Assisi was confronted by a brother who asked him repeatedly, “Why you?  Why you?”

Francis responded, in today’s terms, “Why me what?”

“Why does everyone want to see you?  Hear you?  Obey you?  

You are not handsome, nor learned, nor from a noble family.  Yet the world seems to want to follow you,” the brother said.

Then Francis raised his eyes to heaven, knelt in praise to God, and turned to his interrogator:

“You want to know?  It is because the eyes of the Most High have willed it so.  He continually watches the good and the wicked, and as His most holy eyes have not found among sinners any smaller man, nor any more insufficient and sinful, therefore He has chosen me to accomplish the marvelous work which God hath undertaken; He chose me because He could find none more worthless, and He wished to confound the nobility and grandeur, the strength, the beauty and the learning of this world.”

 

Praise and Glory to the Host of Heavens as to the one who is worthy to be obeyed!

 

1 John 4:9

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org