I'm behind in the devotionals, but wow. Thise verse has a very line-in-the-sand quality to it.
Discipleship is no joke. I would say that some historical context is important in terms of setting the perspective, even though the underlying idea is still crystal clear.
From what I understand, in Judaism a person's family played a much larger part of an individual's own cultural significance and glory and identity than a person's family plays today. It's not really like that today in modern Western culture; you might say that by comparison, someone's economic or educational pedigree plays a much larger part in defining an individual's significance/identity.
So Jesus is really taking apart what was a regular person's central focus in those times and putting it onto His work. Still, it was probably pretty jarring to hear for those would-be disciples and it's just as jarring today. Whatever you think your priority is, no matter how noble or elevated you thought it was, it has to be a distant-2nd if you've chosen to be a disciple...
No comments:
Post a Comment