The scales of knowledge are never balanced for disciples who have heard God say, “Go to that person.” They often have a better sense of another’s future in God than their own immediate future. Yet this is where discipleship, truly being a follower of Jesus, presses us to reorder our knowledge. The truth we know of a person or people must move to the background, and what we know of God’s desire for them must move to the foreground. The danger we imagine inscribed on their bodies must be read against the delight we know God takes in their life. That same divine delight covers us.
