First Reading Numbers 27:12-23
Mark 1:14-20
14Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, 15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”
16As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea – for they were fishermen. 17And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” 18And immediately they left their nets and followed him. 19As he went a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets. 20Immediately he called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and followed him.
We don’t get to choose when the call will come. There is Jesus, walking down the shoreline, ready to call us into something new. At the beginning of the year you probably didn’t think things would turn out this way—that you would spend weeks and months indoors; that you would loose your vacation; that you couldn’t go to church; that the country would be torn again by division and injustice. Here we are, called, in the midst of it, to follow. Where will we go next? We don’t know; and that’s the point. We don’t get to know. We respond by getting up and following. The “where” is up to God.
Gracious God, teach us and guide us. Show us where we are to go, and who you would have us be, in the life of Jesus. Wherever we go, keep us together in your Spirit—that, though separate, we will always be one in you. Amen.
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