Intentionally Detached

So many thoughts go through my mind as I approach the Easter weekend. I feel such gratefulness, sadness, joy, awe, and a little bit of guilt. I mention the guilt because I still can't believe that the Perfect Son of Man would die for the sins of many. I still can't believe that He would want to save a selfish brat like myself when I am so concerned with my life, my dreams, and my comfort- my, my, my!!!! I titled this "Intentionally Detached" because this comes from a sermon I listened to about 4 years ago and it still sits with me today because unlike Jesus I am not detached to myself or the things of the world. Allow me to explain...

The text of this is Luke 9:51-62

In the beginning of this text Jesus is heading towards Jerusalem. The people in a Samaritan village He was about to pass through heard He was coming and made it very known to Him that He was not welcome. Of course Jesus didn't get upset and actually saved this village from James and John calling down judgment on this village.

In the next section we kind of listen in on a conversation about the cost of following Christ and His challenge to hold onto the things of this world very loosely.

Some reflection questions I get from this text are:
Am I too attached to myself, my opinions, my need to be right?
My need is to be detached. I must detach myself from the things of this world so that I can serve Him faithfully and with both hands!

My service to Jesus is directly and adversely affected by my attachments to this life.

Jesus detached Himself from what this world deserves and attaches Himself to showing mercy- Jesus goes to people who do not deserve His mercy!

I need to be intentional about detaching myself from the world and its comforts, from my value system, from the pursuit of human affections and their idolatry.

In order to detach myself from these things I must ask the Lord to reveal how attached I am to these things. I think the Lord began to reveal how attached I am to many of these things while I was in India and observed how detached the Indian Christians were. Their detachment allowed for them to be so freed up. They were freed up to love God deeply and in turn love people deeply. I have never seen anything like it in my life. I was/am so utterly convicted by such Christ-like examples that I had the privilege to witness.