Where Are You Going?

There is a story about a couple who had been married for more than thirty years. One evening, when the wife returned home from work, she found her husband packing. “What in the world are you doing?” she asked. “I can’t handle it anymore,” he replied. “I’m tired of all the bickering and arguing and complaining that’s been going on between us all these years, I’m leaving.” Whereupon, the startled wife rushed to the bedroom, pulled a suitcase out of the closet, filled it with her belongings, and ran after her husband, saying, “I can’t handle it anymore either. I’m going with you.”

If you want to take up your cross and follow Me, Jesus is telling us in the Gospels — if you want to know all you need to know about who you really are and where you’re going with your life, then take Me seriously! Trust Me! Not just when it’s convenient, not only when it’s easy, not just when it…