***Note – Even though the Valley Brook Newsletter has gone monthly. The View from My Place will continue as a weekly devotional.
“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said…” (Matthew 4:19-19).
It’s thrilling for me to consider how just as certainly and as definitely as the Lord called His first disciples, He has called you and me. Not just all of us, but each of us. He called each of us by name, and like each of His first disciples, He called each one of us to join Him in His Father’s work.
He has not called us to follow each other any more than He called His first disciples to follow each other. He has called each of us to follow Him. That is, to be personally engaged with Him and responsive to Him. To seek Him. To trust Him. To enjoy Him.
Yes, we are instructed to follow each other’s examples in certain areas, and we need the fellowship, encouragement, and support of one another, but our focus is to always be on Jesus. It is on Jesus that we are instructed to fix our eyes, and in doing so we are able to hear His voice through one another and also distinguish His voice from each other. Both are important parts of our individual discipleship as we continue to learn to follow Him.
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