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“So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.” (Luke 14:33)
Pretty tough call isn’t it.
Either we forsake all of this world or we don’t. No in between.
In a devotional I get daily, it had this quote by George Bernard Shaw who said,“There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it.”
Every met someone who wanted to follow Christ but also wanted to follow the world. “Have your cake and eat it too” type of person?
You can almost picture them, living for God, but straddling this fine line between God’s world and their world, hoping that maybe God can be more of insurance rather than reassurance.
Not a good feeling is it?
Almost like trying to live two different lives and one day finding everything colliding and rather there being harmony, there’s chaos.
Living for God is such a hard order. We find ourself on fire for him, and then the fire starts dwindling and our eyes wander and wow…it would be so much easier to also live like the world. Then the excuses start and like a domino….we find ourselves tripping over our feet and trying to figure out what happen.
What is holding you back from really experiencing a full relationship with Jesus Christ? Is it fear, pride, desire, something else?
Having a relationship with Jesus Christ reminds me of how, sometimes when I don’t pay attention to how I stock up my tupperware, they would fall when I try to close the door. Oh they’re stored alright, just not perfectly and no many how many times I try to close the door, the door just won’t close fully because there is something stuck keeping me from closing the door and moving on to a task that needs my attention the most.
When we let things “get in our way”, it can be like that too…eventually we find ourself so much more pre-occupied with what is getting our attention that it takes our attention away from our Heavenly Father.
Sure, we think about Him, but after awhile we lose focus and our thoughts stop focusing on Him and become pre-occupied with whatever else that is getting our attention and then…one day we look to Him and it’s like we feel a thousand miles away.
Rather than growing closer to Him, we don’t realize that like a boat that wasn’t properly anchor at shore, we have slowly drifted away and when it’s too late…we are floating out in sea, far from safe harbor.
Whatever it is that is taking your attention away from our Heavenly Father, it’s never too late to re-prioritize and re-focus…more than anything, it’s never too late to call to Him to help pull you back to safe harbor.
Thank you for joining me for Sunday Praise and Worship, and praying you have a blessed Sunday.
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