Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.
Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.
Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but... Please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.
With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for an escape opportunity. Maybe a hole in the wall too small for Tori’s mom to follow me through or a precarious stack of boxes I could topple onto her head or an abandoned hammer I could brain her with. I’d never “brained” anyone in my life, but with Tori’s mom, I was willing to try.
Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.
As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.
The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.
The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.
Jesus didn't mean this as a sweeping command for everyone who has a lot of money. Jesus meant this for any of us who wallow in whatever abundance we have. I imagine Jesus looked straight into this young man's soul and said, 'I want you to give up the one thing you crave more than me. Then come, follow me.'
And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.
Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.
To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.
This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.
And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.
Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.
He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.
If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.
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