Matthew 19: 28 "Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
I shared in church on Sunday that serving Jesus requires sacrifice. This thing called Christianity is no walk in the part. Don't kid yourself into thinking that it is easy, for it is not. To be a true disciple means that you have to give up a lot of things. We aren't like everyone else and cannot have the same attitude and mentality as everyone else. Jesus said we must "deny ourselves daily, take up our cross and follow Him."
Daily denial! I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound like any fun at all! And, if we life a life of daily denial, cross bearing and following of Jesus, we have to forgo many of the worlds pleasures that everyone else enjoys. Make no mistake about it, sin is pleasurable. The Bible makes that clear for it says that "sin in pleasureable...for a season." But that season will come to an end and we will "reap what we sow."
We have choices to make. We can either walk in the Light or we can walk in the darkness but each choice has consequences. " If we walk in the Light as Jesus is in the Light, we have fellowship with Him." If we walk in the darkness, then the opposite is true...there is no fellowship for what fellowship does light have with darkness. So that brings me to my point.
If we choose to walk in the light, Jesus makes it clear that we really don't give up anything. He says that all that we have given up in this life will be returned to us a hundred fold. That is 10,000 times as much as we let go of and the beauty is that which we receive in eternal rewards remains ours forever and ever. What we gain in this life is fleeting and temporary yet I find it ironic that we hold on to it so tightly.
Today, you have a choice. You can gain it all or lose it all. Which do you choose?
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