“I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it…I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them…I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come”. It’s easy to make excuses for not putting God first. Our lives today are so busy. We’ve been invited to the marriage supper, an invitation that requires appropriate preparation in our lives now.
In Luke 13-14 there are a number of warnings about being preoccupied with this life. The Pharisees wanted to limit the work of Jesus to six days a week. We can do the same, limiting God in our lives to just Sundays and Wednesday nights. The kingdom of God needs to be like a grain of mustard seed or like leaven, with its tiny beginning, yet growing to fill our lives, effecting an irreversible change. Let’s take up our cross, renounce all that this life offers, and follow the only one that is able to give us life, Jesus Christ.