–Pastor Chuck Peters
“Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me.” John 21:22
Peter, in the context, inquired as to what John should do. Jesus admonished Peter to focus primarily on his own personal responsibility to follow the Lord.
We have a tendency to want to manage other people’s lives while ignoring our own responsibilities and needs. There are far too many lost people who go through life focused on how sinful everyone else is at the expense of overlooking their own sinful condition before a Holy God. They, furthermore, are more concerned in the accumulation of “things” than attending to the need of salvation of their soul. Multitudes of people are on a sinking ship, yet clinging to their luggage while the ship is going down. Their luggage can’t save them. They need to grab the life raft of salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ.
Christians need to quit managing other people’s lives and simply get serious about following the Lord! Instead of saying, “What about John,” we need to focus on God’s personal will for our own lives. The best approach to following the Lord is to get serious about starting with the basics. Those basics are: Bible reading, prayer, church attendance, witnessing, and stewardship.
We simply need to be a good follower of the Lord. God said of Caleb, “But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.” Numbers 14:24
Jesus told Peter, “Follow me.” We all fail when it comes to talents and abilities, but we can, by the grace of God, follow Him!
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