Follow Me.

Then He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19

Some years ago I was driving late at night returning from Cornell on my way back to Syracuse. My wife and her friend were asleep in the car and the fog was so thick on Interstate 81 in the rolling hills and valleys of Upstate New York that visibility was near zero. Even with my fog lights on, I literally could not see more than two feet in front of me. I gripped the steering wheel like it was a rope and I was hanging over a cliff trying to keep from falling. As I drove slowly through the quiet of the night I kept my eyes on the white lines right in front of the car to the left, knowing that as long as I followed the lines I would still be on the road heading in the right direction. As Christians, we only have one way to make sure we are on the proper path, moving in the right direction and that is Jesus.

The fourth chapter of Matthew describes the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. He rebukes temptation saying “you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.” He begins to speak to crowds telling them that they must repent and once reaching Galilee, he begins to recruit his Disciples by asking them to follow Him. In this life, like a heavy fog, we will never be able to peer more than a half a second into the future. We must have some way to navigate. Jesus is the way the truth and the light. He is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. He is the only hope of our salvation.

My prayer for us today is that God orders our steps and that we follow Him.

Deacon Larry Woodard