Everyone knows when you go to the beach your going to see birds. Lots of birds. At the restaurants there will be signs that tell you not to feed the birds. I always want to feed them anyway. I don't because then they invite all their friends and the other patrons frown on that. So I take my scraps and feed them along the ocean. I feel like the pied piper. Today was no different. They followed me because I had food.
Jesus knew that we were a lot like birds. We follow for the bennies. Only problem is it is not always Him we are following. The desires within us determine who we will follow. If we are addicts we will follow our supplier. So I guess the question would be who or what is your addiction. I have worked with enough addicts to know that people will do anything to get their addiction satisfied. They will give up family, friends, and finances to get their fix.
Mark 10:29-30 (NIV) " 29 “Truly I tell you,”Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life."
Everything in life cost. There is a price to pay for every relationship, job, recreation, material thing and even sleep. It's just easier to pay the cost for some things than it is for other things. Jesus paid the ultimate cost.
Jesus knew that we were a lot like birds. We follow for the bennies. Only problem is it is not always Him we are following. The desires within us determine who we will follow. If we are addicts we will follow our supplier. So I guess the question would be who or what is your addiction. I have worked with enough addicts to know that people will do anything to get their addiction satisfied. They will give up family, friends, and finances to get their fix.
Mark 10:29-30 (NIV) " 29 “Truly I tell you,”Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life."
Everything in life cost. There is a price to pay for every relationship, job, recreation, material thing and even sleep. It's just easier to pay the cost for some things than it is for other things. Jesus paid the ultimate cost.
Galatians 3:13-15 (GW) Christ paid the price to free us from the curse that the laws in Moses’ Teachings bring by becoming cursed instead of us. Scripture says, “Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.” 14 Christ paid the price so that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to all the people of the world through Jesus Christ and we would receive the promised Spirit through faith. 15 Brothers and sisters, let me use an example from everyday life. No one can cancel a person’s will or add conditions to it once that will is put into effect.
A friend once told me about Celebrate Recovery and a phrase they use a lot, "Hurts, Hangups, and Habits". These are things Christ paid the cost for. These are the bennies in Christ. Freedom is worth becoming a follower. Take flight my friend. Jesus even feeds the sparrows.
A friend once told me about Celebrate Recovery and a phrase they use a lot, "Hurts, Hangups, and Habits". These are things Christ paid the cost for. These are the bennies in Christ. Freedom is worth becoming a follower. Take flight my friend. Jesus even feeds the sparrows.
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