Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Mark 14:54
DEVOTION FOR TODAY, January 22, 2020
“But Peter followed Jesus at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire.”
The night was cold and the street dark as he warmed by the fire. Strangers were all around the barrel of burning wood. Their hands were held close to the flame and the conversation was plentiful. No one asked questions; that was the rule of the street. He kept thinking, “This is not my world.” The others also knew that he really didn’t belong there; but everyone needs the warm.
Normally he would be in a comfortable home with everything that he needed. The laughter around him would be his wife and children, but not tonight. The longer he stood in the warmth of the fire the more his fears began to shrink. Yesterday he would have paid no attention to the transient street dwellers, but tonight he shared the same need as them: he was cold.
Sometimes we need a life lesson to remember to be thankful, and to remember to care. Had it not been for the car breaking down in a city that he did not know there would have remained other things he did not know. When it comes down to it and we strip away the veneer, we discover that we all are made of the same clay.
We are all made of the same clay is true, and we are all made in the image of God. Each has something to take from the other, and each has something to give. We can bite and kick, fuss and cuss, criticize the stranger who we do not even know, and have the answers to questions that no one asked; but what good does all that do?
The Bible says that there is a more excellent way of life. It is the way of Love, God’s Love. We often find it by a warming fire when life is cold. After all, rich and poor doesn’t matter when you are cold; but a warm fire does.
The hymn says, “Lord give us true warmth and affection; when one fails help us rescue that soul…Dear saints, let us vow to each other, ‘I will help, I will comfort and pray.”
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
“Link to YouTube Video – We Need Each Other”
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