"When
he was challenged by Jesus to accept a life of voluntary poverty, the rich
young man knew he was faced with the simple alternative of obedience or
disobedience. When Levi was called from the receipt of custom and Peter from
his nets, there was no doubt that Jesus meant business. Both of them were to
leave everything and follow. Again, when Peter was called to walk on the
rolling sea, he had to get up and risk his life. Only one thing was required in
each case--to rely on Christ's word, and cling to it as offering greater
security than all the securities in the world."
"To
be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be
unconscious of it is indeed a narrow way."
--Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship.
Note: Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian
who was arrested and executed in a Nazi concentration camp. His book The Cost of Discipleship, centered on
the Beatitudes, explores what it means to respond to the call of Christ. Ultimately, Bonhoeffer’s theology of “costly
discipleship” led to his death.
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