Drop It All!

In Matthew 4, Jesus calls His disciples to come and follow Him!  These men will be about making disciples, they will be about teaching, they will be about making Him known.  Yesterday, as I read through Matthew 4, I noticed especially verse 22.  It says that, when Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James, and John, they were going about their daily work.  They were fishing.  It was just an ordinary day, nothing special.  But Scripture says, immediately after Jesus called, they dropped everything and followed Him.  They didn’t hesitate.  They didn’t find excuses.  They followed Jesus completely.  They weren’t too busy, too tired, or too frustrated … they just left it all and followed Him.

I wonder what I would do.  I wonder what you would do.  I wonder what this church would do.  If Jesus said, come and follow me.  I imagine it wouldn’t be our turn to follow, we wouldn’t have time to follow, our schedule wouldn’t allow us to follow, or the football game was too important for us to miss just to follow!  We would find some excuse if Jesus asked us to leave everything and follow Him …. BUT WAIT! 

He did!  If we are His disciples, His followers, that is exactly what we’re called to do.  Leave everything and follow Him.  There is nothing more important than following Jesus.  Nothing you can invest your time in that makes a bigger difference.  Give up!  Quit making excuses!  Decide today that you are going to do it!  Drop everything … and follow Him!