Our witnessing stops when we lose our enthusiasm for Jesus, when our intimacy with him ceases. Discipleship Means That We Abandon Our Schedules. At the wedding of Cana, Mary wanted Jesus to solve the problem of the wine shortage at once. Time is life. If you give Jesus your time, you give him your life.
Life is time and time is life.
To take up one's cross daily means to give Jesus 24 hours each day, and each hour consists of 60 minutes, and each minute consists of 60 seconds. A disciple will never do anything but that which is on God's schedule, and getting on God's schedule means giving up ours. If going to a ball game is not on God's schedule, a disciple will not go to a ball game. If shopping is not on God's plan, a disciple will not go shopping. If attendance at a wedding of a brother is not on God's schedule, a disciple will not go.