Hand To The Plow, Double Portion

At whatever age, we each have someone we look up to, someone we consider an example or a mentor. Someone we might even say that, we “want to be like him or her!” Think of the golfer who wants to be the next Tiger Woods. The next Michael Jordan! The next beloved Jack Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. (It IS an election year!). Or someone as close as a parent, a teacher, a good friend, a coach, an exemplary citizen.

And then we think of the challenge to even come CLOSE to being like that person.

In young Elisha’s case….he wanted a “double portion” of the power and spirit of his mentor prophet Elijah! He came real close! In the situation, tho, of the misunderstanding but earnest disciples…..Jesus is very straight with them: follow me…but at a cost! No looking back. Hand to the plow forward. Let the dead bury the dead!

I tend to draw my hand back at that! The cost of discipleship is….well….there will be a cost. But we never have to go it alone. If we all know we each will “bear each other’s burdens,” we can endure and even transcend the cost. At least this is our prayer. Pray for one another! Be the friend of faith to another And come to worship on Sunday! That will help also!
See you there!

Bro Barry