But Jesus said unto him, Follow Me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Matthew 8:22
This command was about flesh.
This was not because Jesus didn’t care about the disciple’s feelings.
He was making a point. Trying to teach a lesson.
There will be many who will try to have you focus on the things of the flesh
instead of on Jesus and the things of the kingdom.
God does care that we take care of the people in our lives.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27
What He was saying in part, that the body is useless once it is gone,
don’t spend time on useless things. Be willing to give up all in your life
and in this world that is valuable to you and concentrate on Me.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15