Cut it off!

Cut it off!

“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go  into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.  And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.  And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.  Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.”  (Mark 9: 43 – 48)

O Lord, this is hard saying.  Who can accept it?  Your message is clear and unambiguous.  What matters most in life is one’s salvation.  This is a task of such magnitude and importance that everything should be done to accomplish it.  

O Holy Spirit, show me what threatens the kingdom of God within me.   Could it any of this?

1. Family


2. Health


3. Money


4. Job


5. Tools


6. Food

Jesus says:  “Cut it off!  Cut it off!  Cut if off!”  
Lord, this may be too hard.  Help me!