Welcome to the “But first, Bible” daily devotional podcast with Dave Miers.
Today’s passages are Genesis 23-24 and Matthew 8. I want to focus in on Matthew 8:18-22 for the next couple of minutes.
Throughout the gospels we regularly see Jesus teaching people to weigh up the cost of following him. It’s almost as if he wants to convince people for the reasons NOT to follow him to make sure potential disciples know what they are signing up for.
There are two things I want to show you from this paragraph about the priority of following after Jesus. We’ll do this under two headings COMFORTS & COMMITMENTS.
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