When all our world is filled with sugar coated, sale-pretty, by-me deals, Jesus is the real deal. His authentic truth is all over Mark 10:17-34.
The rich man who couldn't give up his many possessions had wandered off, and Peter pipes up with, "We have left everything to follow you!" Jesus replies with this wonderful promise for him and us of a "hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life". Wait a minute! What's that "along with persecutions" doing right there in the middle of the wonderful promise? Well, it is called the truth. And someone who tells the truth can be trusted, depended upon, honored, loved, and praised.
The rich man who couldn't give up his many possessions had wandered off, and Peter pipes up with, "We have left everything to follow you!" Jesus replies with this wonderful promise for him and us of a "hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life". Wait a minute! What's that "along with persecutions" doing right there in the middle of the wonderful promise? Well, it is called the truth. And someone who tells the truth can be trusted, depended upon, honored, loved, and praised.
Thank you Lord that we can depend upon Your being real and trustworthy - even with our one life.
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