Matthew 8:22
But Jesus
answered him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.”
The HR assistant
approached the group of applicants. He
asked them to all stand up and said “Follow me”.
Since the HR assistant walks with a limp,
all the people behind him is not just following him, but literally doing what
he does…
All are walking with a limp!!! I know this is a bad joke… but it surely
presents in vivid manner our gospel for today.
The essence of discipleship is obedience.
Jesus calls the first disciples and they
follow Him. This sounds like very simple, but if we look a little deeper into
the word “follow,” we will discover that it is not as simple as it first seems.
To follow carries with it the connotation
of imitating what someone does. Thus, disciples of Jesus are really imitators
of Jesus. We should not be saying one
thing, and then doing another thing “if someone is not looking.”
Another meaning of the word “follow” is the
physical act of following a person along a particular path or journey. It is
not enough just to watch Christianity happen around us; we need to be
personally involved.
We have to learn to trust Jesus that
wherever He leads us, there is a good purpose and reason.
So, do you just follow because others are
looking? Or are you following Jesus
because we know that following Him is the only way to eternal life?
Let us pray +
Lord Jesus, teach me thus Thy steps to
trace, strong to follow in Thy grace, learning how to love from Thee, loving
Him who first loved me. Love in loving
finds employ, in obedience all our joy, ever new that joy will be, loving Him
who first loved me. Amen +
The Lord is kind and merciful.
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