So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:33 ESV)

Have you ever thought to yourself: what if I give up everything? Moreover, can I give up everything? Our maybe even just somethings? If Jesus said this to me, I would cry. Most things I can live without, but if I had to give up my phone or my computer, I may call that a deal-breaker. In fact, you may even say that those things that we hang on to, define us. As a result, they are deal-breakers.

I’m sure you have deal-breakers in your life as well. Whether it’s your phone, car, job, home, relationships, coffee, etc; we all have something, when pushed, that would make us seriously question whether we would give it up and follow Jesus.

None of us are really that extreme, are we? I know I’m not. But Jesus wants us to be extreme, extremely in love with him so that we would be defined by love–his love. His love that saves by grace for people who don’t deserve it.

I want us to consider the deal-breakers we have in life that stop us from wholeheartedly following Jesus and ask yourself: are these things really worth it? Does our salvation and our relationship with God amount to less than our deal-breaker? Jesus wants us to pursue him with everything we have, and if we can’t give up something we have for him, we may lose out on everything we have to offer God in our lives.