You can be radical for many reasons; radical means either getting down to the core of something or extreme. You can be a radical (extreme) fan of a football team. Discipleship means following Jesus and it can be extreme as Jesus said “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” Your agenda is submitted under Jesus’s way. Also, you have to do this every day which is also extreme: the essence of following Jesus. Last week I asked,
“What are you
avoiding?” when we talked about radical courage.
This week I have two questions to ponder:
What are you waiting for?
Whom are you waiting on?
As parents we are always waiting: Every-day waiting can be in the doctors, at stoplights, for a spouse to get ready, for a kid to get out of the bathroom. But there are bigger things to wait for: a spouse, a job, money, depression to go away, an ailment to go away. Waiting can be daily and ordinary and it can also be big and dramatic.
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