Surrender

Today’s reading: Luke 17:11-37

“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭17:28-29‬ ‭NIV‬‬

One of the biggest lies we are tempted to buy into is the one that says, “If business is good, all is good.” We tend not to worry if we have enough (or more than enough). Why would we make a change if everything is going according to plan?

Unfortunately, this will be the mentality that will cause billions to enter into eternity unprepared.

Jesus, frighteningly, compares this to the times of Noah. Apparently they went about business-as-usual right up to the point of water rising.

It isn’t wrong to make money or to have what we need to live, the problem is when that becomes something we are living for and unwilling to surrender.

Verse 33 slams this home:
Whoever clings to this life will lose it,
and whoever loses this life will save it.

Ready us, Jesus!