“Six days shall you labor The seventh is the Lord’s In six He made the earth and all the heavens But He rested on the seventh God rested He said that it was finished In the seventh day, He blessed it God rested”— Andrew Peterson, “God Rested”
Luke 6:1-11
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Jesus Is Better (Luke 5:27-39)
“We must… give up any thought that we have any claims upon God… But Jesus Christ has great claims on God, and we should go to God in our prayers not on the ground of any goodness in ourselves, but on the ground of Jesus Christ’s claims.”— R.A. Torrey
Luke 5:27-39
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Rise and Walk (Luke 5:17-26)
“With that Gandalf stood before him, robed in white, his beard now gleaming, like pure snow in the twinkling of the leafy sunlight. ‘Well, Master Samwise, how do you feel?’ he said. But Sam lay back, and stared with open mouth, and for a moment, between bewilderment and great joy, he could not answer. At last he gasped: ‘Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What happened to the world?’‘A great shadow has departed,’ said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. It fell upon his ears like the echo of all the joys he had ever known. But he himself burst into tears. Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up, and laughing he sprang from his bed.”— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Luke 5:17-26
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Jesus Wills Our Cleansing (Luke 5:12-16)
“Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh. Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear. Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. Spirit, help my unbelief.” —Isaac Wardell, “Lord, I Believe”
Luke 5:12-16
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Jesus Calls Peter (Luke 5:1-11)
“The experience of ‘being in error’ so inevitably accompanies the perception of beauty that it begins to seem one of its abiding structural features. … Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself…”—Elaine Scarry
Luke 5:1-11
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