Full Followers
“ And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.” But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. ”” Luke 9 : 61 - 62 NKJV In the three different accounts on the subject of followership, Jesus emphasized the common challenge to followership as the lack of wholesomeness or fullness. It doesn’t matter how the call to follow Jesus was initiated (i.e., whether we asked or He called), anyone who must follow the Lord must follow fully without any reservation. Full followership requires faith, understanding, loyalty and love ; and that is why every other consideration thereafter is consistently and deliberately sidelined to secure God’s approval. With faith , followers must do ‘Forsaking All, I Trust Him’ against all callers; with understanding , followers must unlearn all other realities to relearn and retain the promises of God; with loyalty , followers...