(August 26, 2015)
There
are times when I imagine that I can establish a friendship with the world and
still serve the Lord. I believe that if
I just use enough rhetorical skill, or enough tact, or come up with a clever enough
argument, then I can stand fast in the truth and the world will grudgingly
admit that I am a good person (even if they choose not to follow the same path
I am on).
Once
again, this demonstrates my foolishness and naïveté more than anything
else. The more I seek to walk the path
of discipleship, the more the world will seek to crush me. There is no clever argument that can make
that go away – Paul was certainly clever enough and in the end he was
martyred. If we truly want to be
disciples, the Lord will put us in the position where we are forced to make a
choice between that and the love of the world – because making just that sort
of choice is necessary to walk the path that He walked.
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