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Hard Sayings

If you want to follow Jesus, you can't just pick the cozy things, you have to take all of His teachings. Last time on my blog I was talking about family.  Jesus said some difficult things about family. In Matthew 10 He says,"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." Then He quoted from the prophet Micah.  "For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a man's enemies will be the members of his own household."  Then He says that we must love Him more than we love our family members.

  Always Jesus must come first in our lives.  If we have family members who do not believe they will not be able to understand our loyalty to Jesus and there will be an inevitable distance between us.  We should, of course, do all we can to tell them of their need to believe in Jesus but we should not allow ourselves to be drawn away from Jesus and whatever He wants us to do.

  Many people in Jesus' time on earth turned away and left Him because they found His sayings too hard.  What will you do?

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