Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person
cannot be my disciple.”
The Sunday School lesson for my Jr High group this week used
this verse. The theme this week was our
relationships with our parents. Hate
your parents? Yes, we are told we must
hate our parents to be a disciple of Christ.
Now does this really mean hate them the way that we think about hating
someone? No.
Of course, what we were talking about here is that you cannot
put your parents before Christ. Christ
must be above all our other relationship if we want to truly follow him.
Think about the relationships that you have. Do you ever put one of those relationships
before Christ? I know that I have a time
or two. As we go into the Holiday
Season, it’s easy to get busy and push away from God, saying that we are just
too busy right now. I challenge you to
think about this in the coming weeks.
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