Follow Me

Feb 3, 2019

To be a Christian is to follow Christ. To follow Christ is to increasingly find our identity, life, and purpose in Him. 

 

18 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”[a] 20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

Matthew 4:18-22 ESV

 

To be a Christian is to follow Christ. To follow Christ is to increasingly find our identity, life, and purpose in Him. 

The three progressive aspects of following Christ:

1. Seeing Christ through grace-filled eyes

2. Abiding in Christ by faith. 

3. Dying to myself to truly live in Him. 

 

• How is Christ calling you to follow Him today? Have you begun a relationship with Christ by His grace? How is He calling you to abide in Him more fully? To realign your heart with His as you walk in surrendered obedience to Him?
• Is there a sin you need to forsake? A step of obedience you need to take, in His power, for His glory, and for your best? 
• How is Christ calling you to die to yourself that you might live more fully in Him? What are you clinging to more tightly than Jesus? How is He calling you to release that thing to Him, in order to hold Him more tightly?