I'm still trying to read through the gospel/biography of Jesus' life from Matthews perspective, and I'm still trying to get my head around the crazy things Jesus says. Things that I immediatly go; 'its so easy to do the opposite' or 'oh gosh, thats so hard.' Things like 'do not judge others.' Oh my goodness, not even just a little bit? And themes of complete submission keep popping up, so like; relying on God for everything and not worrying about what I will wear, or drink or even eat.
Its not easy, in fact its hard to follow Jesus, I mean you sort of get those vibes when He says “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.' (Matthew 13-14) or 'Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.'" Taking up a cross every day doesn't exactly evoke images of happiness or ease. No, its kind of the opposite hey?
Buuut here's the really crazy part, and its true for a lot of life as well not just the Christian walk, often if things are harder, the reward is greater. Its very uncommon that the things that are easyare the things that give the most reward. But in the Christian walk, the reward is truly great; eternal love. As I've said before, every human desires love, often above all other things and God is the only one that gives true, unadultering, unwavering, unconditional love. For ever. Thats a pretty great reward.
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