At some point while following Jesus, he’s likely to turn around and ask you, “What do you want?”
It may come as a surprise (which I think is part of his strategy). And you may not know how to give a truly honest answer (which is what he wants from you). And it may be that you aren’t even tuned into your desires enough to know what you want (which is part of the work he is inviting you into).
Doesn’t Jesus already know what I want? Shouldn’t I be asking him what he wants? Why does it even matter what I want?
Likely. Probably. And because it just does.
Jesus does, in fact, care about what you want. He knows that your desires form a significant part of who you are. He knows this because he created you. And why did he create you? Simply because he wanted to. You were born out of desire; you live out of desire.
So what do you want? What would be your on-the-spot, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed, unedited answer to his question?