Easy?

Luke 9:57-60  As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But he said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”


How easy it is to say that we will follow Jesus anywhere? The man in the gospel probably even meant it, but he probably also thought that following Jesus would be such any easy road.  I had a friend who used to say it was so much easier when she wasn't a Christian, and I always disagreed. Perhaps in light of this scripture I was premature. I was confusing a better life with an easier life. I would not trade my life following Jesus for any other and yet, I think too often I'm still looking for the easier life in this world. If Jesus is our model and is speaking of his life when he says "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”  How can we expect anything different?  


I'm sitting here this morning in my prayer time aching a little from torturing my own body with 54 holes of golf yesterday. I slept real good last night and feel much better this morning than I did before bed last night, but I was a little whiny last night. Meanwhile some people actually hurt from lack of shelter and a lack of food, and I'm not speaking of the ones like me that torture themselves with bad choices. Life is not easy for any of us, but it is much easier for some of us. The problem is my lack of ease is meant to come from my effort on flowing the master not from striving to indulge myself with more. Silly me.