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Day 5 Devotional:

Following Jesus

Taken together, these 3D’s from Luke 9:51-62 teach us that it is a mistake to allow the ambitions for wealth, social acceptance, power, our non-Christian culture, and the fleeting pleasures of this world, to keep us from making the life-changing decision to follow Jesus.

These 3D’s also teach us that when we do set out to follow Jesus, we must be determined and single-minded in our commitment to Him and His direction for our lives, and not keep longing for the life we have left behind that included such things as ungodly relationships, ungodly attitudes, and ungodly habits.

For example, in Luke 14:26, Christ said, “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.”

Christ said this not to minimise our relationship with the members of our families, but rather to emphasize that, if we really want to follow Him, our allegiance to Him must take prior­ity over even the things and relationships that are right and good.

For those of us who have determined to follow Jesus, let us be encouraged by the fact that, if Christ Himself went to such great lengths with such great resolve to win our salvation and to bring us into God’s Kingdom, we can safely trust that He will equally resolutely see us through our challenges, and one day, bring us home to Himself.