Jesus said: “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." This sounds like a difficult teaching..who can accept it? Holding the truth that God is love, in the foreground, this teaching from Jesus takes on its proper shape, and we see that God is SO good, that no claim which keeps us from Him can be heeded.