tonight the message was on matthew 4 and the part that stirred my heart was toward the end of the message.
matthew 4:18-22
18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
and they immediately went to the Lord. he made the example that if he walked up to someone in the congregation and asked them to leave their jobs, their home and their family to go into the Lord's work, at BEST we would say, let me pray about it. but what did peter, james and john do? they left immediately.
what stands in the way of immediately serving Christ? is it our possetions? is it our lives? is it our jobs? our health? money? school? relationships?
what is important here? what is the ONLY thing that will last? the kingdom of God. that is it. the only thing that is and ever will be eternal.
so why do we hold so tightly to our earthly posessions? why do we keep our fist wrapped tightly around material and earthly things?
because we have lost sight of what is important. we have lost our glimpse of the kingdom God is preparing for us.
i pray that the Lord opens my hands and my heart to his leading.
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