“FOLLOW ME!”

 Matthew 16:24-26                    (ESV)

Take Up Your Cross and Follow JESUS 

“[24] Then JESUS told HIS disciples, “If anyone would come after ME, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS AND “FOLLOW ME”. [25] For whoever would save his life WILL LOSE IT, but WHOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL FIND IT. [26] For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”

In the focal passage above, THE LORD HIMSELF is communicating to HIS Disciples a TRUTH that most modern day people seem to ignore, or maybe just can’t SEE before them???  Most people are so caught up with the cares of “this world” and they can’t seem to take the time to SEE what is right before their eyes!  

WAITING ON THE LORD (Psalms 27:14) is one of the most difficult lessons that I have ever been taught.  When you understand that when you “FOLLOW ME”, you are REQUIRED to WAIT ON THE LORD.  We tend to be so intent on “doing something” for THE LORD that we WILL NOT WAIT ON THE LORD at times!

One of the greatest miracles performed in my lifetime was of course in July of 2007.  GOD KNEW that HE had to remove me from the equation, so HE put me in a coma for SEVENTEEN DAYS!!!  I had NO CHOICE but to WAIT ON THE LORD because of “where I was”!!  It is AMAZING that I STILL want to continue “barreling through” life when HE is trying to TEACH me to “FOLLOW ME”!!!

FATHER IN HEAVEN, in only WAYS that YOU are capable of, TEACH me to become so dependent on YOU that I will succumb to “FOLLOW ME”, at ALL TIMES!!!