While the instructions of Jesus are important, and we need to live the kind of life that would made Jesus proud of us, we should never forget that the first act in Jesus call is to come and belong.
The disciples, long before they hear Jesus' sermons, we invited to "come and see." They were given the opportunity to observe a love that showed itself in deed and in truth.
When we hear Jesus' word and live by his commands, we will surely love in this way. When the call to follow takes hold in our lives, we will do these things. But doing these things, or being expected to do these things, or learning what things we are to do should not so completely occupy our life that we fail to give attention to that first act. Christ beacons us to that place where we can be loved and cared for; to those places were we can offer the same.
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