The Cost

based on Luke 14:26-33

"The cost you say? I thought it was free... To take and make use of, to follow as I please. But this word makes it sound as if the price were me All my security, comfort, and ease." "Wait, you want me to hate my father and mother... Forsake the privileged power of their name? I thought the command was for their name to honor. Hate them? To hate myself would be just the same." "But I'll try you out. Let's see where you go. I'll be by your side when you get what you're due I'll look up in pride when your glory you show And be envied as one of the great, lucky few.

And this rabbi, hating his own life, for love scorned the loss Renounced what was he was owed, and took up his cross.

© Randy Edwards 2016 artwork: John Luyken, The Call of Fisherman, apud: Phillip Medhurst; excudit: Harry Kossuth