BURN THE PLOUGH

Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Often in his teaching, Jesus made requests and some statements that others deemed impossible to attain. Today is no exception as he makes a claim that appeared to suggest a mutilation of a part of ones own body as if to affirm the idiom ‘all it takes is one bad to alter the taste of the whole pot of soup’.

However, we can clearly see the actual message He wants to send across- do whatever is necessary to cut yourself off from your old self. Intentionally choose to sever any links to those parts of your life that can provide you with access and avenues to sin and anything associated with it – these include people, places and things.

Even though asking anyone to break off existing relationships and connections is no easy feat, in the order of things, it becomes a necessity that cannot be ignored. A continual attachment to our old selves does not afford us the true freedom we need to live as sons and daughters of God because though our hands are on the plough, we will keep looking back.

Its time for us, like Elisha, to breakdown the instruments of the plough and burn it up so we can move forward and follow God unimpeded. (1Kgs 19:20).

Remember # Nothing should have the right to keep us attached to our old selves- break free and cling to God.