"If it's a choice between God and me, you choose me, 'cause if you choose God, I'm writing you out of my will!"  That's the way today's Footsteps begins as TWR's Alan Travers tells the story of a missionary who did not have the support of her father.  Unfortunately, it's not uncommon to hear about missionaries who don't have the full blessing of their family.  But, Jesus spoke about this type of division:

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth.  I did not come to bring peace but a sword.  For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’  He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me.  And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.  And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.  He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it."  (Matthew 10:34-39, NKJV)

The good news is that when we follow Jesus, even if our family disowns us, Jesus will never abandon us!

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