Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.’”
NL Daily Devotion for Tuesday, February 15, 2022
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
One of the jokes we tell in recovery is that it’s the like mafia: we can never leave because we know too much about our disease. It’s not that I stay because I live in fear of what happens if I leave. I stay because I love the life that recovery gives me. But there are moments of frustration, when I just don’t feel like going to another meeting or making another phone call or writing another personal inventory and I think, “Fooey. Why am I bothering with all this effort?” and suddenly I wonder if maybe I should just leave. And then the words of this verse come to me. Because where else could I go? I have no more illusions about what my disease can do to me, and I know that my recovery gives me a life worth living. It’s the same with following Jesus. It’s not easy. It can be frustrating and demanding. But I’m just not going to find what Jesus gives me anywhere else in all of existence. So why would I want to go looking?
Have I ever walked away from Jesus? When and how did I come back?