Do you know the New Testament recorded Jesus giving the invitation, “Follow me” multiple times? He said it to Peter and Andrew, to Matthew, to several whose names are not listed. And He pretty much said it to us.
“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” [Matt 16:24 NKJV]
Messages given on this passage almost always focus on the denying and taking up the cross part. But it is those last two little words that truly give impetus to the invitation… “Follow Me.”
With those two little words we learn that the Christian life is a life on the move. We aren’t just hanging around on that cross, denying ourselves, and thinking that is all there is.
We are on the move for Christ, following Him as He leads us into the future, into the unknown, into opportunities and ministries still unrevealed.
Leighton Ford, in 1995, gave a charge to a new generation of leaders. He wrote: “God is always ahead of us and moving us on. And so as you minister in a world often steeped in confusion and despair, I hope you will breathe expectancy. God always has another move.”
I love that … “God always has another move” … and He is calling us to move with Him. “Follow Me.”