Would You Follow Jesus

Would You Follow Jesus

“Jesus replied, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:62

I have written many devotionals about the calling that God makes on our lives. Although we sometimes may question this calling and feel that we are not worthy or adequate to do God’s will, we must always trust and be obedient to God. We can see in the scriptures just how important it was to Jesus to have His disciples follow Him when he asked. He came to several of them and told them to follow Him, and when they asked if they could attend to some business, He emphatically told them no, as they were to come now with only the clothes on their backs and follow Him. In the scripture above we see another instance where Jesus stated to not look back, but to follow Him now. I am sure it took a tremendous commitment for some of the disciples to just drop what they were doing and follow Jesus. Matthew was a tax collector, and was probably quiet wealthy, but he stopped what he was doing, gave up everything and followed Jesus. Several of the others were fishermen, who had families and a business, but when Jesus called they also stopped and immediately followed Jesus. I am sure all of these men had some wealth and material possessions that they left behind, but they were willing to give all of this up and go follow Jesus with not even a promise of where their next meal was coming from. If Jesus called you today, would you be willing to drop everything, give up your wealth and material possessions and be obedient to follow His call. I believe this is what Jesus wants each of us to be willing to do. He may not ask all of us to simply give up all that we have worked our entire lives for, but I believe we need to be willing to do this if He called. Do you have enough faith and trust to follow Jesus if He called?