The Need to Follow
I’m extremely reflective these days… and I feel the need to understand everything about life, and how to live it. But this behavior has quite frequently gotten me into a lot of trouble. While I thoroughly want to understand life, and how I can best live it for the glory of God, I quite often forget to follow.
Following is essential. Something I’ve had to discover the hard way. As Jesus has been radically transforming my life, I come to points where I think I know enough to make my own decisions. And then come crawling back to him when I fail… let me give you an illustration:
Life is a forest, and I was lost. Then Jesus came and found me, and told me to follow him. I did and have been following him ever since, through the forest of life. I’ve learnt a lot from him, as he’s done amazing things in my life, and the lives of those around me. Then every so often I’ll think I know enough to take the lead. I’ll start to cut my own way through the forest, thinking I know what God wants. All of a sudden I feel alone and lost, as night falls. Then Jesus finds me again:
Jesus: “Are you lost?”
Me: “Yea, I really am…”
Jesus: “Come follow me, I know the way.”
And so I follow Jesus once more, until I decide I know enough to go on ahead again…
There are some things that I’ll never be able to understand about life… but rather than cut my own path, I need to patiently trust and follow Jesus. And then I often find, by the grace of God, everything starts to fall into place…
“Follow me” - Jesus
