Today's Journal

A FAIR SHAKE

To give someone a Fair Shake is to give them a fair treatment and an equal opportunity. I have always liked the method Jesus chose when sending out the disciples ‘two-by-two’ to share the Gospel message with others. “When you enter any town or village, find out who is worthy, and stay there until you leave. Greet a household when you enter it, and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it; but if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you. If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town” (Matthew 10:11-14). That is a clear instruction.

Our obedience is to take the message to as many as we are called to take it. With humility and strength, we present what we have to share. If “anyone does not welcome us or listen to our words” we are free to hit the road. Then this is the fascinating idiom, or expression Jesus uses, “If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.”

Then it’s time to move on...they got A Fair Shake, and so did we... 

I’m headed over to the other side of the Pond to have some Cuban Coffee and Tres Leches Cake and sit quietly and listen. I want the Lord to tell me when to tie up my tennies and hit the road…and when to stay put.

“If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.” Jesus