“25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “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. 27 And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:25-27
Robert (our youngest, 15) is reading Tim Keller’s King’s Cross. He shared these quotes with me. A great way to be re-oriented by the Cross as we begin our weeks:
”If you say, ‘I’ll obey you, Jesus, IF my career thrives, IF my health is good, IF my family is together,’ then the thing that’s on the other side of that IF is your real master, your real goal. If he calls you to follow him, HE must be the goal.” Tim Keller
“[Jesus] is not calling us to hate actively, he’s calling us to hate comparatively. He says ‘I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look like hate by comparison.'”
