Jordan - Matthew 10

This is one of those chapters that is difficult to swallow and impossible  to understand.  How can I love God more than my family?  Why is it that one who finds life loses it?  Don't we always hear that we are to live life to te fullest?

It is easy to thank God, praise God and worship God, but to choose God over the ones we love all of sudden puts a line in the sand that I am reluctant to cross.  What does it mean in this day in age to put God fist in our lives?  In the times of Jesus, following Jesus instead of Jewish law was a way to get you publicly digraced at best and killed at worst.  The words in this chapter are a cold hard facts.  Today though, in the US, the words are more abstract.  We are worshipping God and fearing for our lives.  So if we say we are putting God first, are they just words?