leaving everything

Peter said to him (Jesus), "We have left everything to follow you!" Mark 10:28

it's not a one-time act leaving of 'everything'. we may think "we have left everything", i dun have anymore stuff to surrender or leave...

it's more of a continual leaving and surrendering of our "things". often we start the christian life or service leaving everything to follow Christ. yet, along the way we tend to pick up things and form attachments that we find hard to give up (and thus hinder us) when Jesus calls us to a deeper level of commitment; a deeper walk with Him. and it becomes hard to give up 'everything' (whatever little or seemingly insignificant; whatever important or dear).

for me, it's giving up of material comforts i will not b able to afford for myself or my family. it's not a choice i made and forget the moment i started on my first step. it's a continued choice that has a continued price.

what are some "things" that are hard to give up or leave in order to grow in your walk with God? time? money? possessions? someone?

yet listen to what Jesus says to Peter -
"I tell you the truth, no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me ad the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields - and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life." Mark 10:29, 30