Luke 18:18-22

Basically this talks about sacrifices. Yes, indeed from the scripture we know that the rich inside the passage has not abused the law at all. But, what Jesus really requires is his sacrifices of his most treasured wealth. In the end, we know that this guy became sad.

In todays term, is not really about our wealth or the question of being able to give up everything for the cost of following Jesus(though, this might be the calling for some people). Is about able to let go what is really in the flesh. I know this is quite simple, but this can be the greatest struggle from what i can see and experince.

When exam time comes or whatever it maybe, we often struggle to go to church, pray and devotion and so on. We let the stress takes over us rather than we manage it properly, we begin to stop serving. I know it sounds good, studies! Then what? when everything begins to settle back to its original state then we begin to serve again and so on or whatver u can name it.

This kind of situation is just lk u treat God with contempt, just like when we were young(4-5 years old), the food that we dont lk to eat we give it to our parents or we just give people things that we dont want. I hope i am making sense. If this can be our attitude now, it might be worse.

Let's say next time u have a career, u have a wife,children and u are elder of the church. U go to yr wife or husband and said,"honey i am just gonna give 20% to u",next u go to yr children and do the same thing maybe in the range of 20% again. God,hmmmmm 35% and the rest is our career.

But thats not the way. Lets give our all to everything we do, 100% in everything we do, i know this is hard, Jesus never said is easy. Infact there is always comes with a price and what is really our priority. To be able to give our best in everything we do sounds insane, but how are we willing to pay the price?Abide in Him! Luke 12:48 says that when someone is given much,much will be requred in return, and when someone has been entrusted with much even more will be required. (I hope i am making a point here, or u can vote this post out.)

And another thing is that alot of us want the goodness and riches of Christ can give. We want so much of the anointing but we are not willing to pay the price of just praying. Is lk u want to do something to help a person yet u are just looking at it without taking any actions. But here is the truth. Romans 8:17 says that And since we are his children, we are His heirs. Infact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share His glory, we must also share His suffering. Here is the thing that we need to understand fully as children of God. See the word suffering, it doesnt mean u will be in pain or sick, it talks about bearing the cross.

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