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| If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brother and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine. |
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(Luke 14:26) |
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So
often the persons called by God to his special work have had to leave home. This was certainly true of Abraham, Joseph, Moses and Ruth. To be sure leaving home for these four implied more than a physical transfer from one place to another. It meant leaving a familiar context of life with its own pattern of thinking, with its traditional values and viewpoints. It meant going over to a new mode of life and thought. No less a break with one's environment is expected today of the person called to God's work.
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