... people coming to him. Mark 2: 13
What did you do to make people come up to you? What was it that drew them? What I did drop everything to follow you?
No doubt many followed you for what you did, for the loaves and fishes, healing, releases.
Others may follow you for what it represents: the freedom of an oppressed people.
How much would those who were only after the miracle worker or a political leader? How many saw as you were? Many that made the crowd were later asked your head. Only a few remained and even most of them fled at the last minute.
What makes me close to you? Am I just behind the miracle worker? Just an attitude I come to demand that my needs would be met? I follow you only because I recognize my need and your ability to get rid of my failures, mistakes and sins?
Partly yes, because I know I depend on you for those things. But that can not be all it should not be everything.
What made a few remain, even if, in their eyes, you could not give them what they needed?
They loved you, loved you more than you could possibly give them. I loved but did not give them anything anymore. Had received the most precious, and that was enough.
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