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When they left out everything ...
When they left out everything ... (Luke 5:1-11; 1Kings 19:19-21) I've been thinking over and over again about the same concern. What if I follow the Lord with all the time and means that I got? Going on full-time I said? What about my needs? My bills? My family? The family I'm going to have? What about the manner of I life I am in? It's not luxurious but I'm thanking the Lord because it's abounding. What about the people around me? Will they understand the life I'm going to take? This isn't regular. This is a special task to do. I always wanted to serve the Lord with all the ability and the availability I got. And I'm willing to follow Him and leave the life I have right now. But not until that time. When the knock of the calling of the Lord is getting louder that it usually sounds. My mind and the inner concerns one by one is going out. Questions, plannings and bargainings starting to stir up. Until I read one message, that really struck my heart and the mind that's kept on questioning.
When the Lord called Simon and the rest of the team to follow Him. In Luke 5, the story goes like, as the crowd is pressing towards Jesus, as He shares the word, He needed to ride on the available boat so that He can move forward to control the crowd, there are two boats there, and Jesus getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's. Then the story goes along and Jesus show Simon and the rest a miracle where in they caught a net breaking fishes. And verse 11 happened, when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
If will put that situation in this very time, what if the Lord blesses you so much on the things that somehow is not bearing fruit? or dry? I'm talking about work, relationship, career, everything that you have, where you invest most of your time. Would you rather choose to have time in taking good care of those things that the Lord blessed? Or would you rather left out that things to follow who gave it in the first place? The common man will definitely choose to took care of the things that made him more blessed and continue the life he had, but those who had the heart of a servant had the guts to left out everything and anything to follow what is more on the other side. We're not hypocrite by saying that. We know the cares of where we are right now. Of ourselves. Left everything out and gave your everything to the Lord, is not easy as it looks. It's not easy to be an adult, the responsibilities you have, in yourself in your family, and the family you'll make soon, somehow. But as you read the passage in Luke 5, you'll see that Simon and the rest has nothing to do with what they accumulated tho it's a big part of their lives because they are all fisherman. What they are into is the life with Christ where in they can experience miracles after miracles, life after life, love after love, grace after grace, blessing after blessings. And they chose the right path. Where in the bible you read that they starve? or did they got sick? Or become in need no, not even once. You see, God can gave you the life He really wanted for you, a life in abundance, life that is content, life that will never runs out, life that He got what you needed, where He supplies everything. Choosing to go after the heart of God is indeed bizarre but, by crossing the unknown and letting the hands of God move every detail of your life for your own good is really amazing. Believing in what the Lord can do, more than what you can do. Your life being one of the greatest testimony in the making where in it's not you who made you successful and abundant in all things but it's the grace of God who made way for you.For now, I will never ever doubt the voice of the Lord that's calling me.I am ready to left out everything for Him, by His perfect time, and perfect ways. If God will open the door that leads me to go forward into His will to be full-time in Him, I'm more than willing to move forward.Just like the disciples, they let Jesus use their boats, they ability, their talents, their time, so will I. And when the Lord made it prosper,by His time may the Lord help me to brought my boat in the land, left out everything and follow Him.
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