“EVERYONE OF YOU WHO DOES NOT RENOUNCE ALL HIS POSSESSIONS CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.” LK 14:25-33
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Great crowds were traveling with Jesus,
and he turned and addressed them,
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple.
Which of you wishing to construct a tower
does not first sit down and calculate the cost
to see if there is enough for its completion?
Otherwise, after laying the foundation
and finding himself unable to finish the work
the onlookers should laugh at him and say,
‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’
Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down
and decide whether with ten thousand troops
he can successfully oppose another king
advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?
But if not, while he is still far away,
he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms.
In the same way,
everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions
cannot be my disciple.” Lk 14:25-33
Today, Jesus outlines a follower of Christ, a disciple. It is difficult. There will be sacrifices, persecution, daily crosses, and suffering. We do not need to look for suffering it will come as a part of life. If we put our suffering in the right perspective and accept it as a gift offering it up with Christ’s suffering it helps us to be purified (Padre Pio). With God’s grace, love and forgiveness we can bear it all. Give glory to God. Peter Kreeft says, “The worst suffering on earth is nothing but a small cold compared to the glory of heaven.”
We must remember that we are sinners due to the Fall. We wake with an inclination to sin. Everyone is broken. We need God. We need a Savior. Today, our Savior reminds us that He is more important than those closest to our hearts on earth, our families. He is more important than our own life. If we are to gain eternal life we must be totally dedicated to our Lord. HE MUST BE THE CENTER!
Then, we will live a rightly ordered life. Our relationships will be rightly ordered and this brings peace. Consequences from Adam and Eve’s Fall give us daily crosses to carry (sickness, tragedy, cancer, blindness, weight problems, diabetes, divorce, separation, fatigue in daily work, unmotivated, anxiety, depression, fear, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, homeless, addiction, death) but not one of them are as bad as losing our soul or our faith in Jesus.
After baptism, if we commit a mortal sin we cut ourselves off from God. This is a greater tragedy. It’s not about sin, it’s about what sin does to our relationships. Sin is sin, it hurts and separates us from the ones who love us the most. Jesus teaches our generation of electronics a valuable lesson today. Many times our electronics are the very possessions that we commit mortal sin with or we get the ideas to commit mortal sin from these possessions. “Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”
We must totally and completely give everything to Jesus. It’s a daily battle of failure and success. It requires persevering prayer (remember prayer isn’t for God, it’s for us), sacrifice to repair our sin/relationships, and most importantly God’s grace. We cannot sit on the fence or have one foot in and one foot out. Jesus forces us to make a choice. There is no fence in following Christ. “You either gather with me or scatter”. I often play this game with our Lord, but I know with His grace I will one day have the courage to be all in! All in is a requirement of a Christian disciple to enter into heavenly bliss!
Today’s challenge: Take a week long break from an electronic or any material possession that is leading you away from God and into sin. Detach yourself from a possession that you rely on more than Lord.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YOLO, 212 (the one extra degree that makes all the difference)
what stuck out to me was a couple of things. We must remember that we are sinners due to the Fall. We wake with an inclination to sin. Everyone is broken. We need God. We need a Savior. Today, our Savior reminds us that He is more important than those closest to our hearts on earth, our families. He is more important than our own life. We must give life to God as he is more important then life because he is eternal life. We must totally and completely give everything to Jesus. It’s a daily battle of failure and success. I live around this because I want to give life to Jesus and learn more about him.
Amen, Canon.
“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” we all need to carry our cross even if its not the “cool” thing to do.
A part that stuck out to me was:
“In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”
I think in this part Jesus is trying to tell us that we need to give up everything for him. We need to fall in love with Jesus Christ and put him before things like video games or doing what we want and pray or read our Bibles. We cannot fall in love with Jesus if we love our material possessions more than him. I think that is what He is telling us today.
“Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” This phrase stuck out to me because we cannot have material possessions if we want to love God. We have to love God more than we love our phones or other possessions. We need to leave everything behind and follow Jesus and love Him with our whole heart.
Jesus says you cannot be my disciple if you do not carry your own cross, he means that If you try to get everyone else to solve your problems. You can get help but don’t just give them your burden to carry instead of carrying it yourself or share the load with them.
He also says if you don’t renounce all possesions you cannot be my disciple because none of it will follow you to heaven.
This is a hard gospel. Jesus asks us to carry our cross, and to work for it. God is willing and wanting to forgive us, but we have to be able to be “worthy” of it. We can never be truly worthy of his forgiveness, but God’s forgiveness depends on intent. We have to wake up every day and try our hardest to follow Jesus’s example, to repent and do our best to avoid sin. Heaven is a glorious thing. God will forgive us and He will help us to get to Heaven, but if we do not try for a better day after we sin, God will not forgive us. It is a sin upon a sin to purposely sin, while thinking to yourself, “Oh god will forgive me. I’ll just go to confession afterwards.” We need to decide for ourselves if the Catholic faith is really our faith, or if we are just going through the motions because that is what everyone else is doing. We need to take our faith into our own hands, and power through the temptations and strife to get to God.
To be a follower of Christ you are going to have to do sacrifices and determination to keep following Jesus.
we must live a nice and holy life and we must try to stay away from temptation. Sin is bad and sin hurts and takes people farther away from God the more they do it. Some sin we even do because we normalize it we dont even realize. So we have to give up everything to God and follow him until the end
Today Jesus tells us how to become his disciple. The things we have to do for him will be difficult. Jesus tells us throughout the gospel how God his father loves us more than anything. He loves us no matter what but we have to decide whether we push him away or seek him out to find his love.
We can’t go to Heaven unless we follow the Word of God. If we don’t listen, we might not be able to enter Heaven.
In this Gospel, Jesus tells us that it will be hard to follow Him. We are going to have to make sacrifices to be His disciples. Suffering on earth can’t even compare to the suffering we would have in hell. Jesus is more important than anything in your life. We must do anything and everything we can to be with Him. It will be hard but it will be worth it in the end. We might not always want to do what He wants us to, but we must stay with Him and never let ourselves go away from Him.
I think today’s gospel is saying that if we had no suffering or worries then we wouldn’t have much to give up to God. With our suffering we have more to give up as a gift and offer for forgiveness. So instead of weeping over our problems lets give them up to God and ask for forgiveness.
“We do not need to look for suffering it will come as a part of life. If we put our suffering in the right perspective and accept it as a gift offering it up with Christ’s suffering it helps us to be purified (Padre Pio)”
I think that this is telling us that suffering shouldn’t be a bad thing all the time, God does things because he knows what’s good for us, he does everything with a purpose. We should not take God for granite because what he does, even if it is suffering its because He knows it’s good for us.
Jesus describes what a follower of Christ is and that it is difficult. We must take up our crosses in our daily life and follow Him. Sin takes us away from God and ruins our relationship with Him. It is an everyday challenge to follow God and prayer can help us with become closer to God.
Jesus is not calling us to hate father and mother, but is instead calling us to a commitment above all other commitments, including commitment to family. “Hate” in this context is not a call to develop an intense dislike for family members, but is rather a call to love them less than Christ.
Today in scripture my favorite part was, “We must remember that we are sinners due to the Fall. We wake with an inclination to sin. Everyone is broken. We need God. We need a Savior.” It shows how we need him we cant live without him so he helped us the most he can which then he gets exhausted. Thats why he sent down guardian angels to help us lead back to our eternal goal, make it to heaven. God wants to see us with him not fighting him. God needs us to do what is right and guide others like angles do to us.
“Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost” This stuck out to me because I think its saying that if we just start praying some random night and expect a answer thats not going to work because you have to think about what you have to do to be a follower of God and think about the hard things about it before you commit to him.
I thing that today’s gospel is saying that we need to make sacrifices for are one and only God otherwise we cannot join him in the heavenly paradise
“EVERYONE OF YOU WHO DOES NOT RENOUNCE ALL HIS POSSESSIONS CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.” LK 14:25-33. This stuck out to me because it tells you that if you can’t do what God asks of you to do, you can not be His disciple.
Something that I got out of this is being a follower or disciple of Jesus is hard to do, and he predicted this as we does with a lot of stuff, he said that their will be hardships, and people will make fun of you and bully you, but it will be worth the while as you will go to heaven, Jesus said” Wide is the path that leads to destruction, but long and narrow is the way to everlasting life.”
Today the scripture is saying to me that we need to be a follower of Jesus Christ. What that means is to believe in Jesus and to try to do what’s right and do what He wants you to do. This helps me in everyday life because sometimes I have to remember that I need to focus on what Jesus would do and what he wants me to do. Instead of doing the wrong thing and doing what I want to do.
I think what God is telling us here is that we can’t take earthly possessions to heaven so we need to give them up down here so we can know how to live without them.
It is difficult. There will be sacrifices, persecution, daily crosses, and suffering ; We do not need to look for suffering it will come as a part of life. If we put our suffering in the right perspective and accept it as a gift offering it up.We should give everything up to Jesus because he died on the cross for us and gave up way more,Everyone needs God.
In saying, “everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” he says that what we have in possessions doesn’t matter in the long run.
“Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?“ It stuck out to me because it is saying that how will we know how to get to God if we do not know the costs of it. If we want to meet God in heaven we have to make sacrifices like maybe taking time out of your day to pray or take time to go to mass on Sunday. If we want to meet him in heaven we are going to have to make sacrifices of our time.
There will be sacrifices, persecution, daily crosses, and suffering. We do not need to look for suffering; it will come as a part of life. If we put our suffering in the right perspective and accept it as a gift offering it up.We should give everything up to Jesus because he died on the cross for us and gave up way more,Everyone needs God.
The meaning of today’s reflection is we are here on earth to serve God. We are not here to just always play video games or watch TV. We are here to serve and love God, who made us and died for us. It is okay to play video games and watch TV sometimes. You can’t only do those things though, you need to go outside and embrace God’s amazing world. You are here to Love and serve God.
In this gospel story, Jesus is telling us to love one another as ourselves. It states, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife or children, brothers or sisters, or even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” When we love one another, we love ourselves. Jesus wants us to love another since Jesus is in everyone else and in us as well as helping one another. When we help each other, we are disciples of God and servants for the church.
To me this scripture reflection means that we have to strive to be holy. He doesn’t want us to be his disciple if we don ´ t follow him or the commandments he wants us to suffer a bit. So he knows we want to follow him and do whatever to follow him.
Today the scripture is telling us to take a break off if our electronics or any earthly possession that is leading us away from Jesus and spend time with him instead. We need to be praying instead of playing games or watching TV.
“You either gather with me or scatter”.God is saying that we aren’t perfect but if we want to get out of this world and go to our real home then we need to love Him how He loves us.
“Everyone who does not renounce all of his possessions cannot be my disciple.” I think that this means that being a follower of Christ will be difficult and we will need to make sacrifices. God should be the center of our life, not worldly possessions.
Today Jesus is telling us basically that all worldly problems won’t matter, because when we get to heaven all we have is the glory of heaven. We have to give up everything to follow God. We have to realize that in the end what happens to us on earth won’t matter, what matters is how sinful or how holy we act in return of bad things happening.
I think Jesus is telling us to be all in or all out. We also have to detach ourselves from worldly things. Those things do not get us anywhere but farther away from God if we are using them for social media or anything that we will not bring on to our Eternal life. We need to spend more time with God and our family and friends because those are the things that last. Our phones won’t last a lifetime. They don’t matter, the only things they do for us is get us farther from God.
I think Jesus is saying that since we suffer enough in our lives, we do not need to suffer more during prayer. Prayer is our prayer no matter what form. We ask and God answers. But when we do ask, we can’t expect our answers to be very soon. If we live for God, we accept the answers we receive no matter what.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and even his own life,he cannot be my disciple“. That stuck out to me because it is different then what we usually hear so much. We need to listen to Jesus and follow him.
In the Gospel, Jesus tells us that there are many things we must do to become a disciple. Most of those things are very hard but we still need to try to do those things as best as we can.
Jesus tells us to be aware of what we need before we start. He wants to help us! He lets us know that in order sucseed, you need to have what you need.
In this scripture Jesus tells us what a follower of Christ is like and it is hard but everyday we must take up our crosses. But remember that everyday Satan will tempt us trying to take us away from Jesus but we need to fight back and remain followers of Christ.
To love god we must get rid of all of our material possessions and only love him
i think the scripture today is about how we need to take up our cross and not to look at our suffering as a curse but as another we to become close to Christ and get to Heven
I feel like this is God telling us to be prepared, and think about what you do before you do it. If you are not willing to leave your past life to follow Him, then you are not ready to be saved. He tells us that we wouldn’t build a tower without planning it out and making sure he has enough money, and a king wouldn’t go to war without thinking over his strategies. Jesus wants us to do all that we do with intent, and make sure we mean what we do.
“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” that stuck out to me because it tells you that we were not made to live a perfect life but to suffer to. We need to accept our cross and go along with it. even when it gets hard we need to know that God is with us through it all.
‘Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” This line from the scripture passage reminded me that Jesus died on the cross for us with the hope that we would become his disciples. His gave everything up for us and in order for us to follow him we must give up everything for him. In reality we can’t live without Christ which means he should be our everything regardless yet so many still choose to ignore him or deny the fact that we need him.
What this means to me is that we need God. We need our family, and our friends. we cant do anything alone even if we tried because God is always with us, and sometimes its not easy to be a follower of Christ. but he never gives up on us so we should never give up on him.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple” I think this means that we shall love God and our family but do not love your family so much that you forget to love God
Jesus is telling us that being a follower of Christ is difficult. There will be sacrifices, persecution, daily crosses, and suffering. Sin may take us away from God and ruin our relationship with him. “Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” We need to have sacrifices and prayer and commit. It is an everyday challenge to be a follower of God.
Jesus knows we need him he knows we can’t be happy without him and he is trying to help us. in the scripture he tells us what to do to become a disciple. Jesus is laying it out in front of us and people just ignore him. God doesn’t want us to suffer he wants us to spend eternal like with him in heaven.
Jesus is calling all of us to be a follower of Christ. It will be difficult with the sacrifices you will have to make but it will all be worth it in the end when we make it to Heaven. He wants us to do good and not to do bad. after baptism if we commit a mortal sin we cut ourselves off from God and hurt him. He wants us do good and follow him.
Today’s scripture We must remember that we are sinners due to the Fall. We wake with an inclination to sin. Everyone is broken. We need God. We need a Savior.
We must totally and completely give everything to Jesus. And renounce your life possessions to Jesus christ to become one of his disciple.
This scripture is saying that we need Jesus and that we cannot live without him. God wants us to go to Heaven and see us happy but the only way we can be truly happy is if we follow Jesus. God is guiding us to follow him.
those who hate father and mother cannot be his disciple. this is the part where we need to understand that love is key purpose in life, even if your married or a religious priest. this means no matter what you will always have love, he wants us to experience the love that the apostles have seen, heard, and experience. married couples are witnesses of God’s unfailing love, but a priest is you never have to forget about love ever again even though he always loves you forever. “whoever does not take up my cross can not be my disciple.” this means that who ever doesn’t walk with him on his path cannot be his disciple. our purpose in life is to worship him and not thinking that we are Gods. we have to walk with him and love him to get to the promise land that he has waiting for us.
I think that the Lord is trying to say that without him we are nothing and compared to him we are nothing. God is so kind that he gave his only son up just so that we can join him in heaven. Also I think that God is trying to say that we are disciples of him no matter what but if we worship him then we can grow as better disciples of him.
Jesus is trying to tell us if we do not follow Jesus and take up our own cross then we cannot be called his disciples. God bless everybody.
Something that stuck out to me was that we need to make sacrifices. God makes so many sacrifices for us. We need to pray for him every day. We need to think before we do or say something.
We cannot be a follower of Jesus if he comes second to our family or friends. It isn’t about us, nothing was ever about us, it’s always been about God. If Jesus does not come first in our life then we can’t really know him or love him. We have to find time to make a plan about how to find God in our lives. “Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?” There is no point in just deciding to pray at a random time. We need a plan.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and comes after me cannot be my disciple. He is saying if you don’t give, you aren’t showing love. You need to take time out of your down to at least say a prayer of any kind. One single prayer can do a lot. Always remember what God has done for us.
today I learned that Once we commit a mortal sin we completely cut ourselves away from God. What hurts most about sin is that it ruins our relationship with God.
Today scripture reflect told me to that we need to give everything to Jesus before its to late.
“everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” Even though many of us may call ourselves good christians, most of us are distracted at mass. Almost all of us let our minds wander when we are praying. We must give up our worldly posessions in order to truly connect with the man that saved us. God loves us unconditionally and uncontrolably, why can’t we do the same with him?
If someone does not fully believe in Jesus, they cannot be his disciple. “In the same way,everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” This means that we can’t just partially believe in Him and expect to get into Heaven, no, we have to devote our lives to him, and make him the center of our life.
We should always follow Jesus Christ in everything we do. “We must totally and completely give everything to Jesus.” Jesus loves us so very much and we should always open up our ears for him and listen to him.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple.
This stuck out to me because we were always taught to love our family and neighbors, but he is saying against it. We have to be willing to accept that we are sinners and that none of us are perfect and we never will be.
“The worst suffering on earth is nothing but a small cold compared to the glory of heaven.” This stuck out to me because its telling us that we don’t have to worry about anything besides loving while we are on earth because after we will have eternal happiness with him in heaven. I also think that it means we don’t have to make a big deal out of little issues and give our problems to him.
I really like this scripture because what He is saying is that we have to be willing to give everything up for Him which is hard for us to do.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
I did a double take when I read this. God wants us to suffer? NO! OF COURSE NOT! He wants us to admit we are sinners and ask forgivesness. Like St. Thismus on the cross. In the Bible, God never spent his time with the holy people. He spent all of his time with the sinners. Take up your cross and follow God.
What Jesus is saying in this passage is that we should carry our own crosses and not have other people do it for us. We are not perfect, so having people do it for you is not a good way of living your life. You will never not make mistakes and never be perfect, but you can be the best version of you, so you should carry your cross with love and pride like Jesus.
We are sinners. We will have to carry the burden of sin until death. Jesus came to save us, sinners. We should strive to give him our whole self because he deserves it. He is more important than any temptation. He is our Savior.
sin is everywhere and we all do it. From birth to death, we all sin. Though it is sad and sometimes many people cannot forgive you, sin is a type of scent. A thing where people know they sin, filling up their brain with this scent that clouds their mind from reality. I feel like it’s like toxic gas. Where one sin and spread to a whole sea of different sins, whether it’s a white lie to a paragraph to lies. Everything reflects off of you.
When just tells us to “renounce all his possessions.” He doesn’t mean to walk into the town and strip all of your clothes off like St.Francis did but to start caring less about them. When you stop caring about the material things you start caring about God and your relationship with him. That’s what Jesus is telling us. If you can only think about your material things than you can’t think about God. So when you block all the material things off you are present to learn from God as his disciple.
In today’s Gospel it is telling us that it is hard to be a follower of God. Its hard to not sin because of temptation and Satan. Jesus is telling us that we need to be a disciple of Him and follow His teachings. Its hard because the world we live in a world that is full of temptation and Satan is everywhere.
What I think Jesus is trying to tell me is that being a follower of Him isn’t easy and that there will be ups and downs. It takes a lot of sacrifice to be His follower. We can’t let sin or temptation take us away from God. We have to be strong in our faith.
“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” The lord suffered greatly in order to save us. We must follow in his footsteps. we are to do small things with great love. Never forget that you are loved and you should forgive others because Jesus forgave us.
I think hes trying to say, If we cant give our all/believe in him, they cannot be his disciple.
Some of the things we have in life can’t always stay with us. That includes people too, because eventually everything goes back to God. Attachment is something that almost everyone has felt, and sometimes that can turn into pride. We just have to remember the things that really matter, and still live with things that won’t matter as much as our purpose in Christ.
Jesus is telling us to throw everything we have and bear the cross. He wants us to follow him so we can be with him but the road is not easy. temptations will make this the hardest challenge ever faced, of course with the greatest reward possible, being united with the Father. however we cannot just simply shake our fallen human nature by ourselves. we will never be able to do that, only God can help us on this road to Calvary to meet that Man on the cross.
If we truly and really want to be with the Father then we need to take up our cross and live the real way of life. We need to totally and completely give out life to the Father , He made so many sacrifices for us that we don ´ t even think about. Jesus also made all of us in his image and likeness whatever you do to someone is what you do to other people.
In this scripture Jesus tells us what a follower of Christ is like. It’s hard but everyday we must take up our crosses. But remember that everyday. Satan will tempt us trying to take us away from Jesus. But we need to fight back and remain followers of Christ.
I think that God is trying to tell us that we should know what we are doing before we start it. When he said ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ I feel like he’s saying that we should think and contemplate what we are doing. Like when Pilate crucified him he didn’t really know what he was doing.
we need to make Jesus the center of our life so that we can be with him in heaven and be living eternally.
If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
Everyone will hate someone else in their life, if you don’t even hate yourself you can’t be a disciple
If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
This kinda hit me because it puts into perspective that in order to be true disciples of christ, we must love him with our full heart and soul
God is telling me that I have to love my family and carry my own cross while following him and too give up my worldly possestions. For it is not an easy path to follow The Lord, but the most rewarding.
In the scripture today it is telling us that following God can be really hard but you must do your best to stay strong and not let the temptation of Satan control your life. It is hard to not sin but we must do our best not to. Another thing it is telling us is that everything in Heaven is so much better then what is here on earth we must be able to give up everything we have for God.
nobody ever said following Jesus was going to be easy. we all follow him and yet we all make sacrifices. but our sacrifices on earth can be offered up in His name. Jesus is worth giving everything up for. Following Jesus can be a sacrifice, but the reward in Heaven will be much greater.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” this stuck out to me because Jesus isn’t saying to not love your family friend and enemies, but to hate our fallen human nature, and to hate what is tempting all of us.
After baptism we have to keep ourselves connected with God. It might be easier when we were younger and could care less about who thinks what of us, but now even I fell away a little bit from keeping a close relationship with God, mostly because the things that people start to do around this age means you have to give up one of those things that you were doing to keep a good relationship with Him. We just need to realize that in 20 years we are going to look down on ourselves and think that we were a bunch of losers, if we keep on doing those type of things of course.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. We should carry our own cross of sin and hatred and shouldn’t put it on someone else’s shoulders to bear the weight. You should carry self hate and sin and put thought into your actions till you go to confession. Confession is what cleanses you. You should feel a difference from the weight of your cross after. We depend on how heavy our cross is when we sin and we weigh ourselves down by sinning.
Jesus is telling us today that it is difficult to follow Him. We must give up everything to be with Jesus. We must give everything to Him and we can become just like Christ when we get to Heaven. If any of us want to get to Heaven (which you should) we have to take up our cross and live our everyday life with it. If Jesus can die a horrible gruesome death for us then the least we can do is listen to what He says and follow Him. You only get one shot at making it to Heaven, ONE. This Earthly life is not all that is left. So use what we know about Jesus and try your best to replicate it.
Today Jesus talks about how being a disciple isn’t easy. It requires sacrifices. But if you can just think for a minute your mom and dad would sacrifice things that are important to them for you. For example driving you to a practice even if all they want to do is stay at home and relax. They do this out of love, and that is why we should know and accept that sacrifice is love. When we take up our cross out of love for Jesus we are following His will. We need to love others as well. Jesus says you can’t be a disciple if you hate your father or mother. So let us love others and sacrifice out of love.
In this scripture reflection I think Jesus is trying to tell us that we are sinners. We hurt Jesus everyday. Whether we want to or not. We are broken. We bring people down and judge them. Jesus is hurt by all of these things and he knows when we are trying not to sin. He knows when we are talking behind people’s back. He knows us. He knows whats going to happen before it is going to.
Something that stuck out to me was ” In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” What I thinks it’s saying is that we need to love Jesus before anything else. Before games or anything that detracts us, and to start to pray more and read the Bible.
you must take up your own cross, just like Jesus took up his so that you can follow him. you cannot take any of your earthly possessions with you when you go to heaven either, and so you must also leave those behind and follow him.
Jesus talks about how to be a follower of him and be his follower We have to take up our crosses and give up our possessions. What he means by taking up our crosses is owning up and accepting that we are sinners that we sin. Accepting our sins and carrying them to Jesus and striving to do better. Not letting out sin brings us down but use it to bring us up in knowing that Jesus loves us. When Jesus says give up our possessions and follow him he means these earthly possessions that we prize more that himself sometimes like money, social media and stuff like that and focus on the enteral possessions.
SIn hurts and separates us from the ones who love us the most. Social Media can also sometimes be the problem, because it gives us ideas or persuasion to make sins.
ive noticed how non christians tend to think christianity is just a list of rules and that its boring, its ok to sin and its ok to forget to cry but whats not ok is to continue the sin and normolize it this happens especialy with social media we see these people cussing, drinking alcahol, hurting people, messing with people for no reaso other than they think its cool and popular, but there is also people on social mediea who do the oposite they post all of these bible scriptures, talk about kindness and bieng christlike but you see them in real life and they are the exact oposite, they call people names, gossip, hurt people, and think there above everyone, we all sin thats why you shouldnt believe what you see on social media and thats also why you should keep YOUR realation ship with god between you and god you dont have to go post on tiktok, instagrahm and twitter to show people you believe in him, show you belive in him by bettering yourself, bringing people up, and pray to god instead of posting your faith for the asthetic or for clout.
When Jesus tells us that we can’t be his desciple for many things we can’t follow him. I think that he is trying to tell us that we have to take ownership of our sins.
“EVERYONE OF YOU WHO DOES NOT RENOUNCE ALL HIS POSSESSIONS CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE.” LK 14:25-33. i feel like this aplys to my life cause i tend to be greedy. its somethin i strugle with
In this scripture Jesus is telling us to listen and follow him. If we follow Jesus we will make it to the eternal gates to heaven and be happy by Jesus’s side and he will make us happy in the gates of heaven.
“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple”. Jesus is telling us if we do not carry our cross. We are not his disciples. We have to pray and do the things that we need to do. We have to sacrifice, pray, and just give up everything you have for God.
In this scripture Jesus is telling us to listen and follow him. If we follow Jesus we will make it to the eternal gates to heaven and be happy by Jesus’s side and he will make us happy in the gates of heaven.
In this scripture Jesus tells us what a follower of Christ is like. It’s hard but everyday we must take up our crosses. But remember that everyday. Satan will tempt us trying to take us away from Jesus. But we need to fight back and remain followers of Christ.
I think Jesus is trying to tell us that to follow him we need to take ownership of our sins
“Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” To me this means that you need to leave your Earthly belongings behind this also reminds me of the bible story that says whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and what ever you loose on earth you will loose in heaven.
It is never easy to follow Jesus and his example. There are no instructions for living a life, that is your choice how you live it. There are paths you can follow to get to heaven though. The thing that stuck out to me was that its not easy to do the right thing and follow Jesus.
Our relationship with God brings peace to us so without him we are suffering.To be closer to God that will take us out of suffering and at the end of life we dont want to suffer.We want to be with God and he brings peace so if we believe in God then he will bring us peace.GOD IS GOOD SO BELIEVE IN HIM.
What God is trying to tell is the being one of Gods followers can be difficult, you will go through suffering and sacrifices. Peter said once that “The worst suffering on earth is nothing but a small cold compared to the glory of heaven.” this is telling me that what ever goes on here on Earth it will get better once we enter Heaven
i think jesus is saying he wants us to become a saint or follow him and he wants you to become a disciple and become one of his peoples.
“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” This stuck out to me because it’s telling me that we all need to realize our own faults and carry our own cross.
This scripture is telling me that we need God in our lives and that we need to put Him first before all of our possessions. We cannot live without God, so that is why we need to let Him into our lives and not ignore Him. We should want to be disciples of Jesus, and to do that we have to follow Him and put Him first.
I think that Jesus is trying to tell us that we are his dsciples. We will have to make difficult desicions in life, and they won’t be easy. If you do ot give, you are not showing love for others.
Jesus tells us how to become his disciple. The things we have to do for him will be difficult. If any of us want to get to Heaven, we have to take up our cross and live our everyday life with it. Jesus came to save us, sinners. We should strive to give him our whole self because he deserves it.
.It is never easy to follow Jesus and his example. There are no instructions for living a life, that is your choice how you live it. There are paths you can follow to get to heaven though. The thing that stuck out to me was that its not easy to do the right thing and follow Jesus.
“Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” To me this means that you need to leave your Earthly belongings behind. This also reminds me of the bible story that says whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and what ever you loose on earth you will loose in heaven.
“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.” This stuck out to me because it’s telling me that we all need to realize our own faults and carry our own cross.
We cant get to heaven unless we spread the word of God.
Our relationship with God brings peace to us so without him we are suffering.To be closer to God that will take us out of suffering and at the end of life we dont want to suffer.We want to be with God and he brings peace so if we believe in God then he will bring us peace.GOD IS GOOD SO BELIEVE IN HIM AND LOVE HIM.
In this scripture Jesus is telling us to follow Jesus and that we won’t live our lives without Jesus. Jesus wants us to be in heaven with him and he will open the gates to heaven and will welcome us into heaven with him by our side.
Jesus describes what a follower of Christ is and that it is difficult. We must take up our crosses in our daily life and follow Him. Sin takes us away from God and ruins our relationship with Him.
When Jesus said “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple.” I think Jesus is trying to say that we can’t just have others figuring out our problems.
Jesus says “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me
cannot be my disciple”. Jesus is telling us to take up our crosses. We need to pray and sacrifice for God. One who does not carry up their cross will never be with God.
“There will be sacrifices, persecution, daily crosses, and suffering. We do not need to look for suffering it will come as a part of life.” This means that in this life there is no way to get around suffering its a part of life but Jesus suffered for us and every time we sin we bring him down.He has done so much for us and we need to appreciate him and everything he does for us. It might be hard but to follow Christ is amazing.
In this scripture Jesus tells us what a follower of Christ is like. It’s hard but everyday we must take up our crosses. But remember that everyday. Satan will tempt us trying to take us away from Jesus. But we need to fight back and remain followers of Christ.
Jesus tells us that it is very hard to be a Disciple. You have to take up your own cross. Jesus won’t let us be his followers if he is second behind our family and friends, he needs to be first not second.“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my Disciple”. This part struck me because even though our parents are on Earth with us, we still have to put Jesus before our parents because he died for our sins.
This scripture reflection told me that Jesus wants us all in or all out. Jesus wants us to be closer to his like reading the Bible instead of being on are phones. Jesus wants us to be closer to him and wants us to make it to heaven.
11-8-23 A thing that stuck out to me is the fact that Jesus said “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother,
wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple”. This stuck out to me because it was Jesus saying that you must hate everything to love everything and to be my disciple because the only way we can have true love is throughout Jesus Christ and God the Father.
He is telling us to carry our cross or carry our weight in what we do every day and to be his diciple and go to heaven on judgement day.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and comes after me cannot be my disciple. This stuck out to me because we all have crosses to carry. We should understand that Jesus literally had to carry a cross to his death, we have to understand that we just have to spiritually carry our burdens and our sins. We should carry our crosses with no complaining. We should understand why we need to carry our crosses.