As they were going along the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." And Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home." Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
I started thinking about this passage and well, I was pretty convicted and still not quite sure where I stand with it. Jesus said to these three men to follow him. But Jesus hit them at the heart, where it hurts the most. He told them that they had to let go of certain things before they could start to follow him.
I had to take that and apply it to my life. How much am I still holding onto? I can say that I am still running and following after Jesus but what am I holding onto that is behind me and keeping me from getting closer to him? It is like you are running as hard as you can in one direction but you are not getting very far because there is a parachute attached to your back with the wind blowing in the opposite direction. All you have to do is release the parachute so that you can run. I know that as life goes on that I will let go of a lot of things and I will cling to many others. That is sadly only because I unfortunately love this sinful-broken world. I wish it was not this way and that Jesus would take me home already but as Philippians says, I am still here for a reason.
I can only ask you this as I realize what is holding me back...what are you still holding onto?
I started thinking about this passage and well, I was pretty convicted and still not quite sure where I stand with it. Jesus said to these three men to follow him. But Jesus hit them at the heart, where it hurts the most. He told them that they had to let go of certain things before they could start to follow him.
I had to take that and apply it to my life. How much am I still holding onto? I can say that I am still running and following after Jesus but what am I holding onto that is behind me and keeping me from getting closer to him? It is like you are running as hard as you can in one direction but you are not getting very far because there is a parachute attached to your back with the wind blowing in the opposite direction. All you have to do is release the parachute so that you can run. I know that as life goes on that I will let go of a lot of things and I will cling to many others. That is sadly only because I unfortunately love this sinful-broken world. I wish it was not this way and that Jesus would take me home already but as Philippians says, I am still here for a reason.
I can only ask you this as I realize what is holding me back...what are you still holding onto?
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