PENnED

Frank said, “I hate the song.”

November 17, 2011

Read: Matthew 4:18-22

 ¹⁹“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

That seems clear. But some people have come to Jesus not to follow him or to fish for people. They have come to Jesus because some preacher said doing so they can live their best life now!

Yeah, I know,  Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full”  (John 10:10). But I’ don’t think that a luxurious lifestyle–as in traveling in your own private jet–was what was in his mind when he said that.  Although desiring and working to become rich is not necessarily wrong, using Jesus as a formula to become one is.

To come and follow Jesus, the Way, is to do it His way, not my way.