David One of His Followers
Jesus the Practical
I DID NOT know the meaning of His discourses or His parables until He
was no longer among us. Nay, I did not understand until His words took
living forms before my eyes and fashioned themselves into bodies that
walk in the procession of my own day.
Let me tell you this: On a night as I sat in my house pondering, and remembering
His words and His deeds that I might inscribe them in a book, three thieves
entered my house. And though I knew they came to rob me of my goods, I
was too mindful of what I was doing to meet them with the sword, or even
to say, "What do you here?"
But I continued writing my remembrances of the Master.
And when the thieves had gone then I remembered His saying, "He who would
take your cloak, let him take your other cloak also."
And I understood.
As I sat recording His words no man could have stopped me even were he
to have carried away all my possessions.
For though I would guard my possessions and also my person, I know there
lies the greater treasure.
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