Matthew 10 Hits Hard
wipes brow my study time today is a smack upside the head. Matthew chapter 10.
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Too few people grasp the gravity of verses 37-39. This should put sheer terror into everyone. Yet the scoffers scoff, believers and unbelievers alike. Voddie Baucham wasn't kidding about so many people worshipping a "sissified, needy Jesus." Verse 34 blows that concept out of the water.
Yet, if you don't grasp the gravity of this passage, and its eternal implications, you're not going to take the rest of the Bible seriously, either.
I pray for every last one of you that I know, or have known, marinate on this, especially if you don't believe in God. We don't know what came before the universe, and we don't even have the ability to know. What do you think we know about what comes after we die? You wanna risk it for a few moments of comfort and safety here, on this planet, where there is constant strife, war, and destruction on every continent?
You can do that, if you want. I really really wish you would think about it, though.