I've always thought of myself has being willing to give it all up to follow Christ. I try to be in church every Sunday, I go to Sunday School, I've led Bible studies, I've taken Bible studies, I pray. I do everything I'm comfortable with but Luke 14:26-27, 33 says something very different. "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters - yes, even his own life - he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple." "any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."
Well, that is a little different perspective isn't it? I'm at a place in my life that I have to sell the house I've always dreamed up, give up certain possessions that I've collected over the years and face a very different life that I wasn't expecting. And you know I look at my house and it is just a house and the things in it are just that, things! I trust and believe in a mighty God who promises to provide for my every need.
More than anything in this world I want to be a disciple for Christ and the cost of that is well worth it. I'm learning to trust and rely on God who LOVES me and WANTS to take care of me.
Remember Job . . . he was stripped of everything that mattered to him, and God, the God of heaven and earth; the God of the universe; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; replaced it all . . . and then some! I know this is painful and scary, but hang in there my dear one, this too shall pass.
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