Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Wednesday, November 6th, and we’ll be reading Luke 14, 25-33.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Luke 14, 25-33.
Now great multitudes accompanied him and turned and said to them, If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.
Therefore what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel, whether he is able with ten thousand, to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an assembly and asks terms of peace.
So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Who can do this?
Or can you?
If you can’t do these, why do you think you can’t?
How do you think you could learn?
First someone would have to show you how to do it, and then you would have to practice to get it, just if we really want to be good at something.
Then we are going to spend a lot of time learning and practicing that one thing, right?
In today’s reading, Jesus is telling the crowd that if they really want to learn and to be like him, then they are going to have to put in a lot more time into learning and practicing what Jesus is teaching them.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dear God, thank you for teaching us how to live a better way.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!