Follow Me!

“Follow Me”, what if God came to you while you were going about your normal day, and said those two words to you? What would your first reaction be? What would you do or say? Matthew 8:34 says, “When He called the people to himself, with his disciples also, He said to them “Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.” God commands us to give up all that we have and all that we know to follow Him. For many of us, our answer to the command “follow me”, would be “but God, what about…” We could insert a million different things into that blank. As Christians we have to be ready at any time to get up and follow after Jesus with everything we are. In Luke 9:61-62, “And another also said, ‘Lord I will follow You, but let me firs t go and bid farewell who are at my house.’ But Jesus said to him, ‘No one having put his hand to the plow, and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.” Jesus is constantly telling people to come and follow Him, and their answers are the same as many Christians today would be. This verse inspires me to not look back on what I have but rather to look forward to what is waiting for me in Heaven. If we get up every day as though the first thing we hear is Jesus saying to us “Follow Me”, then maybe we as Christians could really make a stand for Jesus. My challenge is for Christians to live their daily live as though Jesus is walking in step with them throughout their whole day. “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 This is a promise from Jesus to us, if we will just follow Him!