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Just A Thought: Discipleship

September 4, 2016 0 comments

Posted in: Just a Thought

There are many today who claim they want to follow Jesus.  For example:  The person who said they would follow Jesus wherever they went.  The one who said they would follow after they had buried their father. The person who said they would follow after saying farewell to their friends. The disciples in the storm, who said they trusted Christ, and yet could not trust Him till they had wakened Him from sleep.

Faith in Jesus must rise above the difficulties of any particular single demand that He makes on our lives. We must learn to look at Jesus, not in any one single action, not in any one single word, but in the sum total of all His actions and all his words. Jesus is always teaching, and we have to be always learning. Here’s a thought:  It is not mere attendance at school that makes the scholar - it is learning.

Jesus had His own view of discipleship.  Departure from old associations did not make a disciple. Departure into new circumstances did not make a disciple.  A disciple (was) is one who breaks from an old life and enters into a new one - into a new life which gets nearer perfectness the nearer it gets to perfect trust in Jesus.


Diogenes went about Greece with his lantern, looking for an honest man; and so Jesus goes about among us with His tests and with His searching eye, looking for a disciple.  He looks to see whether we abide in His Word, whether we carry it into every thought, every transaction, every temptation, every trouble. Discipleship is a process where our Lord leads us on from lesson to lesson, deepening our faith, marking us off as His disciples more and more distinctly - as such, we are ever learning and by His grace ever able to come more and more to knowledge of the truth.

May we be found faithful!

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