The Fellowship of Joy

The Call   “And the woman left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, ’Come, see a man, who told me all the things that I ever did. Is this not the Christ?’” – John 4:28-29   Are we too attached to our water pots to carry the call of Jesus to our cities? Are we so fixated on our trivial tasks that we cannot leave them to bear witness to his power, grace, and truth? Here was a woman with the worst reputation in the village and she went to the very people with whom she had made her reputation. To the men of the city, with whom she had no credibility at all, she declared the credibility of Jesus. At least they would talk to her. And she did it without the slightest hint of intimidation and completely undistracted by the unfinished mission that had taken her to the well in the first place. Who cares about two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen when you can have living water? Washing clothes can wait. Cooking can be done later. Even drinking water can

Born this day in 1894 – Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint. He was was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz.

Like Day and Night In Genesis 1:1-5, God calls the darkness night and the light day, separating the light from the darkness. It is the first major distinction recorded in the Bible; Light and darkness, day and night. God does it by speaking. God said, "Let there be light." "God called ..." It is something everyone recognizes. In Psalm 29, the  singer praises the power of a a God whose voice shakes everything up in heaven and earth. "The voice of the Lord causes the oaks to whirl and strips the forest bare, and in his temple all say, 'Glory!'" "The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever. May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!" Throughout history, God was revealing himself to people. The Hebrew scriptures zero in on his revelations to a people who are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, although others from outside that fold sometimes get a word from God