Having a Good Day

Scripture – Luke 18:28-30: 28Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!” 29“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.”

Reflection: Sometimes I’m tempted to let the vision of my heart drop. I’ll start looking around instead of up. I’ll start comparing what I have with what other people have – particularly those who seem to have more. Then I begin feeling depressed or proud. I’ll think about what I’ve given up, what I’ve left, to follow Christ.

Earlier this morning I was reading the simple reminder in Colossians 3 to set my heart “on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.” On my good days, it doesn’t seem like I’ve left anything or given anything up for Christ. I just live, listening for His voice and call and direction. I always have more than enough for my needs. I just don’t think in terms of what I have or don’t have.

Jesus says here we’re not going to come up short. As kingdom people we’ll be rich in this life, and richer still in the life to come. So today I choose to have a good day.