We all answer this greatest question of all!!
Not with our lips, but with our lives.
What is our answer when Jesus asks us like He asked Peter,
Is our greatest goal hearing these most precious words, "
Well Done"?
Well done, not to earn salvation, but as a proclamation of love
and eternal thanksgiving to God, who so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten Son, so all who believe in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life! John 3:16
He looked at me, and loved me as He tenderly implored
Will you love this fleeting world most, or will you love the Lord?
How far will you go, how much will you sacrifice for me
Or is the price of love too great in spite of Calvary?
Do you hold treasures of this world too dear to give away?
Is it to much for Me to ask you to trust and obey?
He looks at you and loves you as He beckons for reply
Do you love me? or do you seek this world to satisfy?
Is its treasure and pleasure dearer than the cross I bore
To break the curse of Satan; do you love him or me more?
Is this mist of existence worth denial’s endless rue?
Or will you love me because of my love, faithful and true?
He looks at us and loves us still imploring tenderly
When you and I reply, pray what will our answer be?
Will we be like the rich young ruler; by vain riches lured
Will we forfeit eternally, the Life His death secured
Or will we join faith’s cloud of witnesses who still believed
When you and I reply, pray what will our answer be?
He looks at us and loves us still imploring tenderly
© Janet Martin
Mark 10:17-31
As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.
“Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
19 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery,
you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony,
you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’[
d]”
20 “Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept since I was a boy.”
21 Jesus looked at him and loved him.
“One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven.
Then come, follow me.”
22 At this the man’s face fell.
He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
24 The disciples were amazed at his words.
But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is[
e] to enter the kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other,
“Who then can be saved?”
27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible,
but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel
30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age:
homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—
along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
