“Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 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; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. 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; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 10:32-39, NRSV)
Have you ever felt like you lost it all?
Like everyone and everything was against you?
No matter what you did it wasn’t right and life seems to deal you a rotten hand every time….
Or the flip side, did you ever feel like you had it all together and were on top of the world?
Jesus said He did not come to bring peace, but a sword and that He would put father against son and mother against daughter and family would be against those who are supposed to be for us…
We are called to follow Jesus, have the proper placement of our position so we are seeing the back of His head as we go where He leads. And doing this the world will turn against us, even those we love and are supposed to support us…
We will be ridiculed and it will seem like we have lost it all, but that my friends is how we truly find it!
Jesus said when we lose according to the world we win in Him. If we lose our lives and give it up to Him, we will be winners!
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