Good and Beautiful God is a book Team Zion began to read and study together. In our last week in Ethiopia – the chapter we were studying ended on this poem:
Love III
Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew
back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow
slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d any thing.
“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be
here”;
Love said, “you shall be he.” “I, the
unkind, ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
“Who made she eyes but I?”
“Truth, Lord, but I have marr’d them; let
my shame
Go where it doth deserve.” “And know
you not,” says Love, “who bore the
blame?” “My dear, then I will serve.”
“You must sit down,” says Love, “and taste my meat.”
So I did sit and eat.
George Herbert
What does God want most of all from us?
To Sit and Eat – He wants to serve us, to see us feast and rejoice in his goodness. One day, we will serve others, but only as a response to God’s love. – James Bryan Smith
