What Attracts Us to You, Jesus?--Apr. 16, 2016

Lord Jesus, you called, and immediately they followed.

I wonder what it was that attracted them to you;

what was in their hearts that made them

want to offer themselves to you?

Was it that you made them glad

by your works?  Or that your

peace ruled in their hearts?

And what most attracts me?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114

Exod. 25:1-22

Col. 3:1-17

Matt. 4:18-25

Selected Verses

Ps. 92:4

For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work;
          at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

Exod. 25:2

Tell the Israelites to take for me an offering; from all whose hearts prompt them to give you shall receive the offering for me. 

Col. 3:15

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body.  And be thankful. 

Matt. 4:21-22

As [Jesus] went from [calling Simon and Andrew], he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them.  Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.