Leave Your Nets

I wish everyone could experience, just once, being in our Wednesday night class. :)

I had asked our young friend, Adam, to teach for me last night since I had a big day at the doctor with the grandbaby yesterday. (So thankful that all that went well!) Adam always says something worth hearing in my opinion and I just love to listen to him teach and really, I like to just sit and listen to him talk. His brain works so much differently from mine and it's fun to visit with people like that...well, it depends on the person, I guess. hehehe. Anyway, he was talking about Jesus calling the disciples Peter, Andrew, James and John in Matthew 4. His point was that when Jesus came to call, they dropped what they were doing immediately to follow Him. As Adam pointed out to the class, this meant that they were dropping their lifestyle, source of income, the family business, everything. The question he asked was, are WE willing to do that? I was sitting there thinking to myself, "Not really."

There have been moments that I was willing, but they were brief and few. Most of the time I just work on convincing myself that there is no need to that, and I'm probably right, most of the time. But, there may come a time when I have to leave my nets immediately.

What those nets represent is security, family, dreams...imagine that dropping EVERYTHING that we hold dear to our hearts just to follow someone we haven't known very long at all. Some one that's been gone for over a month, someone saying weird things like, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." That would have surely been hard for them and their families, AND it is hard for us, too. However, I think the fact remains that He is calling each one of us to leave our nets and follow Him where ever He leads. We sing it, "wherever He leads I'll go", but do we mean it? I don't know about me, do you know about you?

Thanks, Adam. Thanks for challenging me with your insight and your humility. We love you bunches and tons!

Sorry, Friends...

I realize that my blogging is inconsistent at best and in reality almost nonexistent. It is the best I can do, I have no time to blog. BUT I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY! ;)

We'll visit again soon.