{"id":1271,"date":"2009-01-14T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:10:25","slug":"i-must-love-him-more-than-my-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/i-must-love-him-more-than-my-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"I must love Him more than my husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture: Luke 14:26<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you want to be my follower you must love me more than your own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, more than your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;New Living Translation<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>** I feel it critical to mention the translation here, as all other translations I have read say something more along the lines that a disciple must hate his father and mother&#8230;instead of love Jesus more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> To truly follow and be a disciple of Christ, I must love Him more than any other person&#8230; even those I hold especially dear. Even more than myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> Wow. This is a toughie. As you can see I even chose a softer translation because this is so hard for me to fully apply.<\/p>\n<p>I must love him more than any one else? I like to think I do, but when it comes right down to it, I bet I&#8217;ve put my husband before Jesus many times. And myself? Well, that, too, although I hate to admit it. And I&#8217;ve read this verse many, many times.<\/p>\n<p>He knows how selfish we all are, as it says elsewhere to love others as ourselves. But just because he knows my faults doesn&#8217;t mean I shouldn&#8217;t do anything about them.<\/p>\n<p>I need to put Jesus at the top of my list&#8230; always. Ahead of everyone and everything else. And keep him there no matter what.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, I am so sorry. This, I will admit, is tough. I like to think I love you more&#8230; and you&#8217;ve done more for me than anyone could possible do, and yet I continue to move your priority up and down on my scale. Please guide me in placing you, and keeping you, way up top. I want to love you more than anyone else. I want to think of you first and everyone else (including my husband and myself) after that. Please guide me. I can&#8217;t do this without you, as you know. And thank you Lord, for loving me anyway. Wow. You are amazing and selfless. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"momflower\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Luke 14:26 &#8220;If you want to be my follower you must love me more than your own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, more than your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. &#8211;New Living Translation ** I feel it critical to mention the translation here, as all other translations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}