FAITH CAPSULE: Is He calling you in certain areas of life that you are yet to follow fully?
Luke 5:1-11
When He called Peter to follow it was after He had directed him to launch into the deep. It happened that after Peter’s fishing all night with no fish to account for. Jesus said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” (Luke 5:4) Knowing fully that it was the same place they toiled all night without catching any fish, Peter and his fellow fishermen could not bypass Jesus’ command but reluctantly launched into deep. The Bible recorded that they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. After having caught so much, Peter and his fellow fishermen had a reasonable ground to go into full scale fishing. The word stated, “So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.” Peter and his team of fishermen teamed up and followed Jesusby disallowing so much catch to keep them from following Jesus. Decision to follow Jesus came after Peter and his fellow fishermen were position to make reasonable wealth from their net breaking exploit. Nevertheless, they made the outright decision material wealth and went following Jesus. To you wealth has come, your net is catching so much beyond your imagination. Just as you are thinking that you have enough not to follow Him, it is obvious that now is the time you give up that interest of yours and follow Him. It is written, “After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, ‘Follow Me’. So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.” (Luke 5: 27-28)
Following Jesus, demands leaving all and rising to follow Him fully. No baggage of Egypt will be accepted in following Him. There is no record that any one followed fully and ended in shame or regret. No one follows Him and fail. A Full-fledge tax collector did not have to wait to be called twice in following Him. He rose at the calling and followed Him with no excuse.
Is He calling you in certain areas of life that you are yet to follow fully? Your excuse for not following is so silent that you can hardly hear yourself giving excuse. Also, it could be that your excuse is so legitimate and everyone can reason with you. Everyone does not count and it should not hold you back because His power, peace surpasses all understanding.
It is time for you to rewrite your road map with a compass that reads North: JesusSouth: JesusWest: JesusEast: Jesus.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God that denies all that causes man to delay, derail or be distracted from hearing and answering fully to His calling.