A Call Worth Dying For - Follow Him

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, Jesus wandered the streets and byways of Israel. He was initiating a revolution, but his revolution didn’t revolve around the masses or multitudes. It revolved around a few men. Those few disciples would learn to think like Jesus, love like Jesus, teach like Jesus, live like Jesus, and serve like Jesus. As Jesus transformed his followers, they became fishers of men, and we have the gospel today because they were faithful in making more disciple-makers.

So, let us be faithful to do the same. We are followers of Jesus. We have died to ourselves, and we now live in Christ. He has saved us from our sins and has satisfied our souls. He has transformed our minds with his truth, fulfilled our desires with his joy, and conformed our ways to his will. He has joined us together in bodies of believers called local churches for the accomplishment of one all-consuming commission: the declaration of his gospel and the display of his glory to all the peoples of the world.

This task involves all of us. No child of God is intended by God to be sidelined as a spectator in the great commission. Every child of God has been invited by God to be on the front lines of history’s supreme mission. Every disciple of Jesus has been called, loved, created, and saved to make disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus until the grace of God is enjoyed and the glory of God is exalted among every people group on the planet. And on that day, every disciple of Jesus—every true and authentic follower of Christ and fisher of men—will see the Savior’s face and behold the Father’s splendor in a scene of indescribable beauty and everlasting bliss that will never, ever fade away.

This is a call worth dying for.

This is a King worth living for.

Pray that God, by his grace, would sustain your faith and, regardless of the cost, give you a greater desire to follow Christ.