Luke 9:57-62
[57] As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” [58] Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” [59] He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” [60] Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” [61] Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.” [62] Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
This is a passage all about putting Jesus first - above everything else including family. As someone who spent most of my life saying ‘well, yes, I WANT to follow you, Lord but....’. I always find today’s passage a challenge. I will be eternally grateful that I have been forgiven for 30+ years of putting the ‘cares and riches and pleasures of life’ before Jesus, and that I have been accepted into God’s Kingdom.
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