Romans 6:12-23 • The wages of sin is death; eternal life is free.
Matthew 10:40-42 • Welcoming and offering a cup of water.
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” This is the way of humans. The way of the divine is quite different. In the passage from Romans we are asked to present ourselves to God. In other translations of the bible we are asked to yield, offer or give ourselves to God. When we yield to God we are embraced in deep hospitality, we are embraced in the love of God.