By Pastor Dr. Aggrey Soyekwo
Mark 10:28-30 "Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive 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." - NIV
Change can be very costly. To Jesus’ disciples, it cost everything; careers, families, personal comfort, and property to follow Jesus. This was very drastic change. And Peter raises it with Jesus who acknowledged and promised they would be rewarded, in this life and in the one to come. The point of forsaking all was that their primary allegiance was now to Jesus who would help them live life in honour of God in careers, family, personal life and managing wealth and property.
In following God, we shall have to make some changes from our old ways of life. Every change God initiates in us is for our good. There is always something new and better than what we already know or have. We benefit from it now or later in this life, and some on to the other side of eternity.
When all has been said and done, and you have come to the goal of the change process you or God wanted you to attain, you will discover it was worth it. It was worth the pain, discomfort, the things you forsook or endured, the despise and rejection. Then you can enjoy the fruit of your obedience to Him and enter the rest He has prepared for you.
Revelation 2:7 "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God."
Shalom children of God