Followers....

Ultimately, Jesus was calling [followers] to abandon themselves. They were leaving certainty for uncertainty, safety for danger, self-preservation for self-denunciation. In a world that prizes promoting oneself, they were following a teacher who told them to crucify themselves...

The key is realizing—and believing—that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams…then we must focus our lives on another world. … We must fix our attention on “a better country—a heavenly one.”… For then and only then, will you and I be free to take a radical risk, knowing that what awaits us is radical reward.
When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for his sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It’s just common sense. Following Christ is not sacrificial as much as it is smart. Jim Elliot once said, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
This is the essence of what Jesus taught in Matthew 10, and it is the key to taking back our faith.

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