A Costly Call

Discipleship and Mission

Call to Discipleship

A Costly Call

Matthew 10:34-39 The Message 

34-37 “Don’t think I’ve come to make life cozy. I’ve come to cut—make a sharp knife-cut between son and father, daughter and mother, bride and mother-in-law—cut through these cozy domestic arrangements and free you for God. Well-meaning family members can be your worst enemies. If you prefer a father or mother over me, you don’t deserve me. If you prefer a son or daughter over me, you don’t deserve me.
38-39 “If you don’t go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.

For Reflection

Just as Christ had to die so that God could show us the cost of our commitment to change. We also must die to our former lives to accept the promise of grace. Christ begged for God to save him from pain and death.  We can not expect that our faith journeys will be free of suffering.  It is in the passage through our suffering that we grow in grace. 

Pray

Pray so that you will look to Jesus to find yourself. Embrace your human condition as a tradesman may accept the cuts, bruises, and pain of learning his trade and learn from them.

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