​55. Let the Dead Bury Their Own

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“Let the dead bury their dead.”

Oh, Jesus. Anyone who thinks you’re as sweet as a newborn pup must not know you very well.

You’re honest and exacting and have a heart that can’t be hidden.

You are the embodiment of agapao, self-sacrifice. Your love isn’t a friendship built on getting a kick out of who we are.

Your love is built on a deathly self-sacrifice for who we never will be on our own.

You paid the ultimate price so I can be who God originally created me to be. And my heart aches for all the times I haven’t been grateful for that.

It’s been a rough week of sharing the gospel and it falling on deaf ears. It’s been a rough week of seeing what pretending to believe looks like when your heart hasn’t actually submitted.

But I can’t do the work. Only You can.

So Jesus, the ultimate lion, the beginning and the end. The foundation on which this world is built and the living hope in every follower’s heart. You will come back to judge the living and the dead.

So let the dead bury their own.