"And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
Today's is a very powerful lesson for all of us who claim to have taken on the task of following after Jesus.
As is made so blatantly clear in today's quote, there is NO looking back when it comes to putting our lives into the hands of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
To demonstrate the kind of faith required to redeem our eternal souls, we must keep our faces forward always and look neither backward nor sideways in our pursuit of life. God will provide for our every need, just as He promised He would, so long as we ask in the manner He laid out for us.
The explanation of today's "Christian" condition is laid our very well in James 4:2-3, "Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
While explaining what would come of increasing our faith and keeping our faces forward, Jesus said, "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you."(Luke 17:6)
What a promise.~
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