Daily Devotion

River of Life Christian Church ︳www.rolcc.net/english Luke 9:57-62   "As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, 'I will follow you wherever you go.' Jesus replied, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'  He said to another man, 'Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father.'  Jesus said to him, 'Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.'  Still another said, 'I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.'  Jesus replied, 'No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.'"   We want to follow the Lord, but we also have many concerns that we can't completely follow Him.  When someone comes to the Lord and said "I will follow you wherever you go," very often the way that the person has envisioned is different from the way that the Lord is going to take.  He might think going far away for mission work is just to stay at a hotel and have someone take care of everything, but Jesus said here that "the Son of Man has no place to lay his head," which is like saying "you might think following me is easy, and we'll be welcome everywhere; the reality is that there are many places where no one will welcome us and take care of us.  Do you really want to follow me?"  Lord also clearly laid out the cost of following him; when someone wanted to follow Him, but said "Lord, first let me go and bury my father," the Lord said "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."  Lord didn't mean that he shouldn't care about his father, but he shouldn't let family relationship become a hindrance to following the Lord.   People use all types of seemingly justified reasons to place following the Lord at the second priority in their life.  We often hear that a person wants to follow the Lord into full-time ministry, but he will only follow the Lord completely after he has major achievements, his children are grown-ups, and nothing else in the world will hold him back.  But when all these are accomplished, we are typically in our old age.  There's no better time than now to make the decision to follow the Lord!  No matter how many concerns and burdens you have in your life, there's nothing impossible in God!  Today is the best day to start following the Lord.   What are the worries in your life?  What are the things that you keep on looking back at?  May God help us to lay down all our worries and burdens, and bring everything before the Lord.  God is the ruler who provides everything that we need in life, and He will provide us with all our needs according to His glorious riches.  Follow Him with all our heart, and He will provide us for all our needs!     Pray with Pastor Tong           Dear Lord, I thank you because you are our faithful God.  May God have mercy on us, for we often put our hand on the plow but look back at the same time.  Let us lay down all our worries inside before you, because we know that you will provide us for all our needs.  Let us focus our eyes on you and follow you with all our heart and all our mind.  I thank you and I pray in the victorious name of Jesus, amen!

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