Luke 9:57-62
57 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
59 He said to another man, “Follow me.”
But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”
62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
When you try something new or read about something new, how much time do you give it...Some things are harder to do than other things...Some things take time to do and effort...Faith maybe one of those things that may take some time...A certain amount of time is involved in keeping and having faith...Certainly following Jesus' teachings is a hard thing to do and takes time to follow them and to do them...
Following Jesus and His teachings and taking the time each and everyday to work on your faith takes effort...It is a very hard thing to do, to follow Jesus, and G. K. Chesterton wrote about this...
When G. K. Chesterton wrote, "There is a sense that Christianity is only old hat...It’s been around for so long and so many people, cultures, and even civilizations have tried it...Yet, despite such endlessly common efforts, they seemed to have still fallen short...They didn’t produce the missing link, the holy grail, or that secret to life that makes sense of this mysterious existence...Christianity is just a worn out pair of shoes, used when useful and in the end “found wanting.”...That’s the common perception anyway...But it’s wrong...The truth is that the Christian life has largely “been found difficult and left untried.”...And because of that we’ve never actually experienced the fullness of the Christian ideal...There are some who have actually overcome the difficulties, given it a fair try and did not find it wanting at all...They’re called Saints...So before we go writing off Christianity as more of the same old hat, consider looking to the Saints and trying on a hat that you perhaps have never fully tried."...
And as we we read about the cost of following Jesus, we can believe that He did not have His own house...Not a house on earth...Jesus said that foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head...So in this sense Jesus was homeless, and was this Traveling Teacher who really did not have a house to go home to, or go back to when He was done with His ministry or when He had finished His day...And by saying this He never was done with His ministry...His ministry was always going and is always there...His ministry is alive and going today...
He walked and taught the Truth of life and the eternities...These truths about the eternities still exist and will always exist...One of the things He came to do was to testify to the Truth...And by testifying to the Truth, we can see by reading the gospels and following His Teachings that it is as difficult as Chesterton says it is...Jesus ideals and teachings have not been tried and found wanting or not true...He taught the Truth and is our Absolute Truth...Each and everyday keeping His ideals and teachings have been found very difficult to do and they are most of the time left untried, because of these difficulties...