{"id":3656,"date":"2008-11-16T01:11:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T06:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/the-go-of-renunciation"},"modified":"2009-11-15T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T04:33:43","slug":"the-go-of-renunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/16\/the-go-of-renunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GO OF RENUNCIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest.<\/p>\n

— Luke 9:57<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our Lord’s attitude to this man is one of severe discouragement
\nbecause He knew what was in man. We would have said – “Fancy losing
\nthe opportunity of winning that man!” Fancy bringing about him a
\nnorth wind that froze him and “turned him away discouraged!” Never
\napologize for your Lord. The words of the Lord hurt and offend until
\nthere is nothing left to hurt or offend. Jesus Christ has no
\ntenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin
\na man in the service of God. Our Lord’s answers are based not on
\ncaprice, but on a knowledge of what is in man. If the Spirit of God
\nbrings to your mind a word of the Lord that hurts you, you may be
\nsure that there is something He wants to hurt to death.<\/p>\n

V. 58. These words knock the heart out of serving Jesus Christ
\nbecause it is pleasing to me. The rigour of rejection leaves nothing
\nbut my Lord, and myself, and a forlorn hope. “Let the hundredfold
\ncome or go, your lodestar must be your relationship to Me, and I have
\nnowhere to lay My head.”<\/p>\n

v. 59. This man did not want to disappoint Jesus, nor to hurt his
\nfather. We put sensitive loyalty to relatives in place of loyalty to
\nJesus Christ and Jesus has to take the last place. In a conflict of
\nloyalty, obey Jesus Christ at all costs.<\/p>\n

V. 61. The one who says – “Yes, Lord, but . . .” is the one who is
\nfiercely ready, but never goes. This man had one or two reservations.
\nThe exacting call of Jesus Christ has no margin of good-byes, because
\ngood-bye, as it is often used, is pagan, not Christian. When once the
\ncall of God comes, begin to go and never stop going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lord, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. — Luke 9:57 Our Lord’s attitude to this man is one of severe discouragement because He knew what was in man. We would have said – “Fancy losing the opportunity of winning that man!” Fancy bringing about him a north wind that froze him and “turned him…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}