The call of love

Lyrics

About this song

I hear you Lord…
I know your voice…
The call is love…
But the path is sacrifice

Isn't there another way?
Is this what I must do?
Can't I go another day?
Father…
It costs so much to follow you

The call is love…
So take my hand….
And help me prove…
(That) I can rise to love's demand.

This song imagines Jesus pondering and praying over the implications of the call to heal Lazarus, which meant going back to Judea and risking the end of his ministry.

John 7:1 says, "After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life"; but something happened to change his mind. Lazarus, one of his dearest friends lay dying in Bethany, just outside Jerusalem. The anxious message from Lazarus's sisters was "The call of love", which compelled Jesus to abandon caution and go back to hostile Judea, where he would be crucified.

Jesus knew what would happen in Judea and he waited in Galilee for two more days before making that fateful journey. He would have spent some of that time praying Perhaps his prayer was like this?