*True Obedience* to the Lord requires saying goodbye to willfully choosing a sinful life. We must choose to walk in the fruits of the Spirit like Jesus(love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control). *Galatians 5:16-26*
*SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN FOLLOWING JESUS AND YOUR FAMILY.*
When we get serious about obeying the Bible and the Lord , we often have to say goodbye to much of the world, including family, friends, parents, and maybe even our children, etc.
Most are not willing to choose righteous lives because it would cost them their worldly pleasures and living for their flesh.
In *Matthew 7:13-14* Jesus says: *13* “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. *14* But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
So the Bible says we CANNOT love our parents or children more than Jesus. *Matthew 10:35-37* says: *35* For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
*36* a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[a]
*37* “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
So you would often have a life of few friends and family because most will not choose to live a godly and righteous life. And you CANNOT align yourself with those who are aligned with the world.
It’s a *HIGH COST* But you would have a closer relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit and, of course, eternal life and that what’s most important.
*Mark 10:28-31* says: *28* Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
*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. *31* But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
*SO WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO OBEY JESUS, YOU WILL HAVE A NEW SPIRITUAL, GODLY FAMILY*
Choose WISELY!
*Enjoy Your Day*
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