What was the point
Jesus was making? I believe that He was
saying that whoever is not willing to let go of everything and follow Him is
not able to be His disciple. If we
withhold anything from the Lord and let it hinder us from serving Him, we are
not true disciples of Him. If we become
attached to anything more than Him, we are in danger of not making it to
heaven. Attachments become adorations. We tend to direct our affections toward those
things we become attached to.
The Lord can’t have
our full attention when we become attached to anything or anyone more than
Him. He must be our first priority, our
first love in life, if we are going to make it to heaven.
Is the Lord your
first love today? If He is, you will not
withhold from Him your life. You will
allow Him to take you wherever He wants you to go and do whatever He wants you
to do. If He is your first love, then
you will value His role in your life more than anyone else’s. You will be willing to let Him change
anything He wants to change in your life, no matter how difficult or demanding
that change may seem to be to you. Again
I ask you today, “Is the Lord your first love?”
If He isn’t, you are not in the center of His will for your life and you
will never be happy or satisfied until He is.
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