Jesus Said, "Follow Me"!

Jesus Said Follow Me

When Jesus' ministry began he said to those chosen by the Father, "Follow me"!  We have read how this occurred in accounts written in the gospels.  Of those who were curious enough to heed the call, God picked 12 to be witnesses of his words and work for later generations. To follow him is to be allowed to match him step for step, stride for stride at the pace he set. I do not recall any record of any of these men inquiring initially, "Why should I do that"?  No one asked him in those early moments, "Where are you going"?  They seemed to be transfixed!  They stopped doing whatever they were doing and followed him!  Then he started doing miracles, and that was enough to cement their undivided attention.

Later in his ministry, they did ask him, "Where are you going"?  And he replied after constant prodding, "I go to my Father and to your Father and to my God and to your God"!  Thus Jesus became the "pattern Son" to show us THE WAY we all go.  When we look at the pattern, we see our own WAY.  He was born from Mary's womb, but God placed him there as His Son. The Same is true for all men.  The Father-Husbandman retrieves an infant spirit from His nursery and plants it in the clay womb of one of His daughters on earth.  After nine months or so He brings us out of it and we are born to our earthly parents just the WAY it happened to Jesus. We live our lifetime on earth for whatever length of time it may be.  During this period of consciousness we wonder, "Who am I?  How did I get here and why am I here?  What happens to me when I die?  Do I cease to exist"?  These are troubling questions that men ask in all generations and human cultures.  But God sent His "pattern Son" to be the answer to those questions and to show us THE WAY prepared for us.  Because we are God's (sheep), we "follow him" (Jesus) to the same fold (Heaven).  Those who are born Christian have an advantage.  They can find the answer to those nagging questions we all ask as humans by reading the record of the "pattern Son".

What about those born in non-Christian places on earth with no written language or in nations with different religions?  They may live an entire lifetime on earth without any knowledge of Jews, or religion, or Christ.  They may not have a chance to know THE WAY.  They will be haunted by those dark questions all their lifetime or their ethnic religion might teach them another way!

Jesus is called the Lamb of God!  All men are called God's sheep (Ezekiel 34:31) and God Himself is the Father of the sheep (Matthew 23:9).  The True Shepherd of all sheep is the Father Himself, Psalms 23.  When each man's tenure in the flesh in Satan's prison is done, Father calls each human sheep by the name He gave them from before the foundation of the earth.  Father Himself is the TRUE WAY!  His voice strips away the flesh in circumcision and the human spirit returns to Home-Heaven to receive a hug and a kiss, new clothes and shoes on their feet, a crown of life and a ring on their finger.  That is THE WAY it is in this life whether a man is good or bad, Luke 15:20-24, 20:36-39.  Your birthright is your guarantee!  You cannot be "alive" as a human being in any other WAY ... and that is just THE WAY it is.

Glorify God!

God did it!