Looking Back (But Only For a Moment)

Sometimes, you just have to wonder...was it worth it all?

You come to this point in your life where everything is changing, and it all feels so good, and right, and you are at peace about it...and yet...

What about what you left behind? It isn't easy, walking forward without the things that used to define you. I miss those things. Some of them, I don't. Some things that held me back in the past were terrible, destructive patterns that deserve to be annihilated. Yet that is the difficulty in life sometimes.

Moving forward means leaving good things behind.

Quite honestly, I don't always like that...but I am willing.

See, not all things that hold us back are bad, evil, or destructive. Sometimes, there are some absolutely phenomenal parts of our lives that, in reality, were holding us back all along.

When you see those things disappear, and you take time to look back on it, you have to wonder...

...was it worth it?

"As they were going along the road, someone 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.” And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Yes.

It is worth it. 100%, never-look-back, worth it. Why? Because Christ has called us to it. He has called me to it. I don't know what kind of adventure I have in store ahead of me, but I know it will be a grand adventure, something that will deserve to be in a book.

What about those good things, the ones that I had to leave behind? Those things that, in themselves, were not a bad thing, but the timing may not have been right?

I don't know. For now, I'm just living. But, I believe in redemption.

What about you? Are you going to give it all up, the good and the bad, to follow Christ? For that is what He demands. The cost of being Christ's disciple is great, but the reward is even greater.

Will you give up the good and the bad?