Follow Me

Could you easily follow?

Imagine your self driving a car with some friends going to Tagaytay for some vacation. You know the name / address where will you go but you don’t know how to get there. Your friend knows exactly and how to get there, so you asked himr to go first and you follow.

So you both start your engine and drive your cars. You drive comfortably in the NLEX road as you following your friend’s car. Seeing your friend’s car in front of you makes you cool even the traffic is so heavy at Balintawak. Your friend turned left when you both reach Quezon Avenue, you don’t know where he is going or you question “why he turned left when he supposed to go straight?” but you trust him and follow him as close as you can. As you following him, you are amaze to find out that it was a shortcut, an easy road where there is no traffic. You and your friends reached the SLEX road, and it excite you to finally get to Tagaytay and you notice your friend somehow slowing down. You wonder why? At the back of your mind, “well, I’ll just pass him; I will just figure it how to get to our destination.” But you chose to follow him instead, slowing down also your car and then you exclaim! “Thank God, I follow him” why, the reason why he is slowing down is that a road construction is ahead of you.

Finally, you get to the vicinity of Tagaytay. This really makes you more excited to see the vacation house. But then again, your friend stops his car at the side. This makes you nuts, “Why he stopped?” Then you found out that it is already 12nn, some of your friends already hungry.

Finally, you reached your destination. You proved that your friend knows exactly where you are going to, that he just wants to lead you where the best vacation house in Tagaytay.

Imagine, what if you lost your friend in the middle of the traffic? Will that make you panic? For me, I will be panicked. I don’t know where to go and now I can’t see my friend’s car. What if you accelerate your car when your friend slowing down? You might not want to imagine what will happen to you that will be morbid.

Life is like that, we face traffics. Problems are traffics in our life. It makes us feel tired about life but having Jesus with you makes life more comfortable knowing that Jesus is still in front of you. Sometimes, Jesus is leading us where we don’t know exactly He planned but you trust Him that He knows the best so you follow Him. Sometimes, we our selves making wrong turns or getting ahead of Jesus but Jesus making ways for us to be in the right way, He makes a way for us to slow down. Delays are not that bad. The difference here is the destination, your friend was leading you to a vacation house, but Jesus is leading you to your eternal home – HEAVEN. Heaven definitely much more of what this earth could offer. (Revelation 21:21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.)

Friends, do you find life so hard? Do you find your self hard to follow Jesus; even if He tells you many times to “follow Him”? Maybe, you still don’t know His heart; maybe you don’t know how much He loves you. God wants the best for you (Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.) God loves you so much (John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.)

Jesus Christ died for you. Jesus showed His love for you. As for me and those who follows Jesus – we chose to follow Jesus. How about YOU????

Matthew 4:19a
"Come, follow me," Jesus said,