The value of Jesus
In Matthew 10:37, our Lord Jesus tells us that if we love our fathers or mothers more than we love Jesus, we are not worthy of Him and if we love our children, more than Him we are not worthy of Him. In Luke 14:26, we are told again by Jesus that if we do not hate our parents, children, siblings, or our own lives, we cannot be His disciple. To understand what our Lord is conveying here, I use a training session with Moses- my big race horse. You see, Moses places more value on his herd mates sometimes than he does on me. This presents itself as him trying to ignore what I’m telling him to do and get back to them. It can also present as him doing what I ask but not doing it humbly and with submission. This is the perfect parable to explain what Jesus meant in both Matthew 10:37 and Luke 14:26. In the same way that Moses sometimes places more value on his relationships with his herd mates, we also sometimes place more value on our relationships with those around us than we do our relationship with Jesus.
We, like Moses, tend to want to remain in old habits, in familiar places, in useless mindsets instead of humbly and submissively following Jesus. Like my training of Moses, I recognize this in him and so I demonstrate to him that he is free to choose to be around his herd mates while we are working, but the more he chooses that, the harder his work will be. It is the same thing with our walk with God. The harder we attempt to live our lives using our family traditions, mindsets, attitudes, and way of doing things, the more work it is to enjoy our lives. The more we humbly submit to God, the less work it is!!
I hope you enjoy this session!!
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The song I used was “Truth Harvester” by Max Anson
