Let Go of Your Footprints - Guest Speaker

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

In the Bible in Daniel, Jobs, Zacharia, Chronicles, Isaiah, Proverbs, Psalms, all over the place, they talk about God as a refiner, purifying, cleansing, and making things new. But to be transformed, to change, you have to be willing to let go of your footprints to let them fade here, so you can make new ones there. Or maybe let go of the beautiful image in your mind of the footprints you're going to leave on some beautiful road, in order to let your feet sink a little deeper in your place. Either way what you're doing is letting go of your expectations for your life to follow your call. And we know it's never easy. You're going to have to go through a little fire. So, when those would-be disciples from our story today, tell Jesus that they are in, that they are ready to follow, but just have one little thing, one little thing to take care of over here. Essentially what they are saying is that that part of their life, is separate from their act of following Jesus.