“Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.”
That’s kind of a harsh saying that Jesus gives us this morning. Some commentators say that it’s a technique to show the dramatic teaching of Jesus, that it wasn’t taken literally, but to say that we need to give up everything to follow me.
Maybe we could put it in terms of an English expression when we say, “yes, but.” We always include the “yes, I will follow you, but not right now.” Maybe it’s not having to do with burying our dead, but perhaps you and I are invited in different ways during the day to do something that would be Christian or indicative of our discipleship - and do we respond sometimes, “oh yes, but”?
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