Challenging words from Jesus for today:

“...if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?"

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come on dude

you're obviously right but

that's hard

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In Luke 14:26

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple."

I'm reading through Matthew right now. Sometimes that easy yoke doesn't seem so easy and that light burden seems heavy. Kinda like taking up a cross.

So, even, Jesus, didn't hold tax collectors in high esteem?

Tax collectors of that day were seen as a bit of a pariah in society, since they were also of Jewish decent, but were employed by the Roman occupation to collect taxes from fellow Jews.