ease, comfort
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“Follow Me” & Leave It Behind

“Follow Me” can be Difficult

Called my 2 year old to follow me this morning, he was headed for the cow manure part of our yard… with bare feet. Whatever it was he was headed for he had to forget it and head toward me. He struggled a bit turning to me then back to where he was headed. Then back to me, finally he came back.

It occurred to me that when Jesus asks us to follow him, he is at the same moment also asking us to leave certain things behind.

Leave behind what we are doing, perhaps leave behind our ambitions, our hobbies, our careers, our easy and comfortable way of thinking, that he does not agree with.

Depending on our past this can be difficult, leaving the comfortable and pleasant for…wherever he leads us.

We get him in exchange for our lives.

Only a repentant person can do this, it is not easy. An easy pleasant life can make following him more difficult. In this way a pleasant, wealth filled, easy lifestyle is a major curse. It hinders us from following the one true king, it delays us, it causes us to second guess our life path.

Sometimes I wonder that if when life feels difficult, it’s his mercy and may cause us to follow him more easily in the future. Because we just won’t follow him otherwise.

Anything in life that is easy, comfortable and entertaining look at with suspect. What is it’s source? if it’s not Jesus himself, rethink it.

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” – Matt 16:24

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Jesus Worhsip
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Rest, Peace, and Intense Fervent Seeking

On one hand …

a Christian is securely blessed, she is to live in perpetual rest and peace in Jesus. No need for performance or living up to others expectations. No laws needed, just a relaxed state of resting in God, hidden in Jesus Christ. As we die daily, surrendering our life, our ambitions and our good works. We are to live in a perpetual sabbath rest, a perpetual Jubilee feast. We are seated very high in heavenly places far above anything whatsoever to worry about. Goodness and mercy following us, laying beside the still waters that he brings us to.

but on the other hand…

We are to intensely and fervently seek and pursue Jesus Christ. As if no one or nothing else mattered. We are to be so spiritually violent with spiritual things that we seem obsessed. In hot pursuit of knowing him alone, no distractions, we’re not to major on any thing good or bad other than knowing Jesus Christ alone.

Completely and totally handing over our lives to him, given over to him. Losing friends if necessary, offending family if needed. Given over to him to the point of death.

Lukewarm-ness and self-centeredness becomes a foreign language to us. Which is are not remotely enticing.

We relax and live at rest and peace concerning life and death and provision. But we are intensely…fervently striving to know Jesus Christ. Digging deep in him, daily using spiritual violence with our own sin. Yet using extreme mercy with other’s sin.

Hebrew 4:9 there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest (through belief in Jesus Christ), lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief (people of Israel not entering Cannan because of unbelief.)

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the beginning
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Hear Directly from The Beginning

What Happened in the Beginning?

Imagine if the beginning was not an event in a certain location but …a person? What might he say? Who might he talk about? How would he describe everything?

It may sound a bit strange but… not in the context of Jesus Christ.  Jesus is said to be the resurrection itself, he is said to be truth itself. He described himself as The Way, he is even described as the Alpha (the first) and Omega (the last).

Maybe it is not so crazy a thought because a woman named Wisdom speaks at length in Proverbs chapter 8.

Why could not The Beginning metaphorically speak and testify?

Jesus Christ is the Beginning

The truth is Jesus Christ is described as The Beginning among many other things.

Colossians 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything

Read that verse again, Colossians 1:18 describes Jesus Christ as The Beginning. Beginning is not a time and a place it’s a person. That is how massive and all encompassing Jesus Christ really is. So what is Jesus the beginning of?

As far as this universe is concerned Jesus Christ is the beginning of it, its purpose and its future, all things. Jesus Christ is the origin of all of humanity, all that God has planned for us and this universe. As far as any question humanity could have about anything about origins and purpose for all things. Jesus Christ is its answer and its beginning.

From His Side Book

In my new book From His Side, The Beginning emerged from the side of Jesus Christ and testified about him and our purpose.  Here is a small portion of when he emerged and spoke directly to a church.

“He created me then he created wisdom and understanding[1]. We stood in awe containing and enabling the handiwork of his universe, everything that can be seen. He crafted things of almost infinite massiveness and infinite smallness with the same detail and wisdom. I am the container that holds his creation. The work of Wisdom began within me. When he penetrates this world again, returning to reclaim all that he built, tearing the heavens like a garment[2]. I will yield to his presence. He will pass through me as if I were an open door. Space and time, the beginning and the end, will bow to his matchless presence.” – The Beginning

[1] Proverbs 8:26-27 While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world. When He established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep.

[2] Revelation 6:14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

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