A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, “If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparison—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:25-27
What Jesus is talking about here is forgetting about things of this life and focusing totally and completely on Him. He don't want to be second best. He wants, and deserves, to be number one in our life. We have to put ourselves aside. We have to let go of all the glame and glitter of this world and allow Christ full access to our life. To often, we say we want to follow Jesus but we hide one little part of ourself, we block off a tiny chunk of our daily life to keep all our own. Friends, it don't work like that. Jesus Christ wants every little bit of us. He wants every second. He wants nothing less than our complete, unaltered committment to Him. He wants us to completely surrender to Him.
Are you living the surrendered life? If not start working toward that end today. Start out each day by surrendering and giving more and more of your thoughts, more of your time and more of your life to Him. I want to live the surrendered life! Do you?
