“Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.” John 14:23

When my girls were little we had a nightly ritual of reading bed time stories. Dr. Seuss was at the top of the list. Both of my girls, even before they could read, had “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” memorized, and could recite the words just by looking at the pictures. As I grow older, the Seuss story I find most relevant in our faith life is “Green Eggs And Ham”. The main character in the story has decided, even before he has tried them, that he does not like green eggs and ham, nor the the Sam I Am character who is offering them to him. That sounds like us!

We Dismiss Before We Try

When Jesus implores us to listen to him, or to obey his teaching, we suddenly have a way of becoming very fussy on which lessons to follow and which ones we decide “that’s not for me”. Why not give the life Jesus wants for you a try. You may end up like the Seuss character, who in the end finds himself admitting, “Say, I do like green eggs and ham. I do like them, Sam I Am.”