Wanna come along? I can promise you a life of loneliness, destitute, affliction, persecution, ridicule, perplexity, and dark tunnels.

“Why on earth would I want to come along for those?” you ask.

You get Christ.

Choose what lies before you: 1. Life on earth and all its niceties. or 2. Christ and identifying with Him in His death.

“But what if I want both?” You can’t. Because it’s not a product that God offers. God offers Himself for an intimate relationship. That would be like saying to two women, “I want BOTH of you!”

We must choose. And frankly most American “Christians” choose #1. I put “Christian” in a quotation mark because it is doubtful whether they are truly Christians.

Consider these verses:
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Matt 16:24

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matt 7:13

“Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.37 They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.

39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,40 since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.” Hebrews 11:36-40

How many “Christians” in America do you think are truly saved?

What is our reward?
Christ!
Eternal life!
Soul-quenching-eternal-satisfaction!
Springs of living water!
True home!
Final Acceptance by the Father!

You wanna throw away all that for a few years of fun?

PH