{"id":10182,"date":"2023-04-24T06:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.servias.org\/?p=10182"},"modified":"2023-04-24T06:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:40:36","slug":"is-jesus-your-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=10182","title":{"rendered":"Is Jesus Your Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Is Jesus really Lord of your life?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 9:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">57&nbsp; On their way, someone came up to Jesus and said, \u201cI want to follow you wherever you go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">58 Jesus replied, \u201cYes, but remember this: even animals in the field have holes in the ground to sleep in and birds have their nests, but the Son of Man has no place here to lay down his head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">59 Jesus then turned to another and said, \u201cCome be My disciple.\u201d He replied, \u201c<strong>Someday<\/strong> I will, Lord, but allow me first to fulfill my duty as a good son and wait until my father passes away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">60 Jesus told him, \u201cDon\u2019t wait for your father\u2019s burial. Let those who are already dead wait for death. But as for you, go and proclaim everywhere that God\u2019s Kingdom has arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">61 Still another said to Him, \u201cLord, I want to follow you too. But first let me go home and say good-bye to my entire family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">62 Jesus responded, \u201cWhy do you keep looking backward to your past and have second thoughts about following Me? <strong><u>When you turn back you are useless to God\u2019s Kingdom realm<\/u><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is your focus, the temporary or the permanent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our relationships with others are important but not at the expense of following Christ.&nbsp; The trappings of this world are but temporary and should not take our focus away from being led by THE SPIRIT.&nbsp; Our goal should be to minister Life to those who are willing to listen.&nbsp; We are to take up our cross daily and deny ourselves of anything that would hinder us as being faithful Sons and Daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, there is a cost to following Jesus.&nbsp; How much are willing to give up doing those things that may inconvenient or challenging?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Jesus really Lord of your life?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 9: 57&nbsp; On their way, someone came up to Jesus and said, \u201cI want to follow you wherever you go.\u201d 58 Jesus replied, \u201cYes, but remember this: even animals in the field have holes in the ground to sleep in and birds have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}