Crazy Love Discipleship Class

In chapter 5 we were faced with the question of "Are we truly committed to Christ or are we just giving Him our leftovers?". We started out with where we left off in the previous chapter and determined that there is no such thing as a lukewarm Christian. Lukewarm people, in fact, are not Christians at all. Although, as Christians many times we may be guilty of displaying lukewarm characteristics in our dedication to our savior and not giving Him the allegiance to which He deserves. Jesus calls for His followers to be fully committed and the evidence of that commitment is fruit bearing. Jesus didn't mince any words in the 16th chapter of Matthew when He said "If you want to be my disciple, you must deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me". Likewise, in the 14th chapter of Luke Jesus says " Anyone who does not give up all he has, cannot be My disciple". Jesus is saying that there should be nothing so important in our lives that it would come before Him. Jesus asks much of us, because He wants so much more for us. He understands we will fail, and that is where His matchless grace comes in. He loves us and longs for us to love others with His kind of passion. Oh, that we could live our lives following as a little child, unblinded by all the worries and cares of this life, so that we could see all that He longs for us to be.
Our challenge is to gaze upon the love that Jesus lavished upon us at Calvary, to the point that it draws us wholeheartedly to Himself. I pray that this realization moves us to give our Lord and Savior "the best of us", not "the rest of us".

Jay