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Luke 9:57-62
1) My family
2) A comfortable place to live
3) A "successful" ministry
4) Good food
5) Good books
This is just a very short list (in no particular order) of things that I would find difficult to deal with losing/giving up. If God demanded these things of me, would I give them? Would God ever demand these things of me? Hard questions.
Hard questions, but necessary ones. It's very easy to build a God and a Jesus and a religion in our mind that suits our tastes perfectly. That doesn't challenge or correct or rebuke or demand anything. That God and that religion isn't CHRISTianity. Jesus makes it abundantly clear that many SAY that they will follow Him, but few actually do. The cost is high. Consider what the cost is and what it may be in the future.
"The picture of looking back while plowing is apt, since in Palestine the terrain is rugged. To look back while plowing was asking to make mistakes in preparing the field. The task required a focused eye on what lay ahead. So discipleship demands attention to the rough road before us. To look back risks being knocked off course." [1]
What's on your list?
Luke 9:57-62
1) My family
2) A comfortable place to live
3) A "successful" ministry
4) Good food
5) Good books
This is just a very short list (in no particular order) of things that I would find difficult to deal with losing/giving up. If God demanded these things of me, would I give them? Would God ever demand these things of me? Hard questions.
Hard questions, but necessary ones. It's very easy to build a God and a Jesus and a religion in our mind that suits our tastes perfectly. That doesn't challenge or correct or rebuke or demand anything. That God and that religion isn't CHRISTianity. Jesus makes it abundantly clear that many SAY that they will follow Him, but few actually do. The cost is high. Consider what the cost is and what it may be in the future.
"The picture of looking back while plowing is apt, since in Palestine the terrain is rugged. To look back while plowing was asking to make mistakes in preparing the field. The task required a focused eye on what lay ahead. So discipleship demands attention to the rough road before us. To look back risks being knocked off course." [1]
What's on your list?
[1] Darrell L. Bock, The NIV Application Commentary: Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996), 285-86.
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