[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, today’s Gospel celebrates* the call of Matthew.* *Jesus tells the
tax collector, “Follow me.”*
*The call of Jesus addresses the mind, but it moves through the mind into
the body, and through the body into the whole of one’s life, into the most
practical decisions. “Follow me”* *has the sense of “apprentice to me” or
“walk as I walk; think as I think; choose as I choose; see as I see.”*
*Discipleship
entails an entire reworking of the self according to the pattern and manner
of Jesus.*
*Upon hearing the address of the Lord, Matthew “got up and followed him.”
The Greek word behind “got up” is anastas, the same word used to describe
the Resurrection (anastasis) of Jesus from the dead. Following Jesus is
indeed a kind of resurrection from the dead*, *since it involves the
transition from a lower form of life to a higher.*
*Those who have undergone a profound conversion tend to speak of their
former life as a kind of illusion, something not entirely* *real. The
father of the prodigal son can say that he “was dead and has come to life
again.” So conversion is an anastasis, a rising from* *death-*

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