The Gates to the City - Water Gate By Rev’d Paul Collings
The watergate was built into the city wall to help to ease the passage of goods between the quay and the city and stood near the Custom House.
Matthew 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
Matthew 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
I look upon the market place,
The trade of high street’s frantic face
And little see compassion’s heart,
Hid there by profit’s upward chart.
It ever seems to be the same
Where have, have nots vie and enflame
The gulf between the rich the poor,
That even bars, locks riches store.
The needle eye in holy writ
Speaks of an arch, a tiny gate
Restricting traffic to and fro
Through city’s walls, prohibit flow.
Dear Lord, may I in all my tasks,
Have mind to value and to ask
Those left forgotten, cast aside,
To share my custom, come abide.
Oh that the world would taste and see
The riches of your grace in me
That from the bounty of your heart
Through me for them new life may start.
The old and honourable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. Wendell Berry
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