Follow is fishing

Good morning family forever,

Every relationship will reflect your relationship with Jesus.

Clarity:
The way you are with you boyfriend or girlfriend will reflect your relationship with Jesus. The way you are with you mom or dad will reflect your relationship with Jesus.  The way you are with the homeless person on the street corner will reflect your relationship with Jesus.  The way you are with your teacher will reflect your relationship with Jesus.  You get the point?  Your attitude towards others (anyone) will reflect your relationship with Jesus.

The best way to truly see our relationship with Jesus is by looking at the person we treat the worst in our lives.  If you want more intimacy with God then look at the areas of your life with others that lacks the most love.  It is there that you will find what you're looking for, because every person we have difficulty loving is Jesus with skin on.  Want to go deeper?  Then love harder.

Why?

Because when we follow Jesus we not only gain the awesome relationship of love with Him, but we gain His mission.

We become one with Jesus.

Jesus teaches us how to follow Him and live life on earth as His disciple.  He died for the sins of all, so everyone essentially has the gift of being Jesus with skin on no more or less than you do!  If you received forgiveness from all your sins (past, present and future) then your enemy gets the same free pass!  Otherwise you mock the love of Jesus by trying to nail Jesus again with more sins that you hold on to, whether your own or someone else's!  This is trying to kill Jesus all over, and many people live as an enemy of the cross!

Being Jesus with skin on is an honor that means you are now beloved and perfect.
Forgiven and free.
Every sinner saved by grace is now Jesus with skin on, and that's why the way we treat one another helps reveal how we truly relate to Jesus.  You want Jesus?  He's walking around with skin on all around you!

So, what do I do to be doing the will of God?

"Follow Me," He told them,
"and I will make you fish for people!"
Matthew 4:19

Jesus doesn't say, I will make you make sure other people treat you well!
(In fact it's the opposite)

If you decide you want to follow Jesus it means you will inevitably become a fisher of people!  Laying down your life because people will not love you, they will hate you...but fish for those sinners!

"I will make you fish for people!"

Jesus didn't say, follow Me and we will see what happens from there.
Or follow Me and I will make your life easier!
Or follow Me and you won't have to deal with the bull crap of all these other imperfect imbeciles!

He said, "follow Me, and I WILL MAKE YOU FISH FOR PEOPLE!"

You become about His mission.
Think about your own conversion testimony.  He found you in the dark, in the pit of your own hell, and He carried you into the light by revealing His humiliation on the cross for you.  In the same way, He sends us out to one another to do the same...to bear our humiliation for one another.  In this way we fish for people by the weapon given to us by Jesus...which is Himself!  Be Jesus to others, because Jesus is in others!  When we love those who don't love us in return then love more!   Jesus is found in the forgiveness of sins, in our humility, and in grace given.  Everything you give is everything you've got!
What you got from Jesus is ....freaking unsurpassable in awesomeness!
It's better than anything you could think of in your tiny human brain because it includes everything that God could think of!

“But everything that WAS a gain to me: money, temporary comfort, cool points, reputation, beauty, temporary gratification, family, etc...
I have considered to be a loss because of Christ, the eternal treasure!
More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in VIEW OF the SURPASSING value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ!"
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:7-8

The process of growth and intimacy in a relationship with Jesus involves both what you know and do as well as what you don't know and don't do.  What you know and do reflects also what you yet don't know and don't do.  So...you want more love of Jesus?  You won't find it in what you know and do, you'll find it in what you don't know and don't do...

When what you want becomes what you cannot gain on your own (the areas of what you don't know and don't do) then you're ready to be lead.

Jesus leads us in making us fish for people!

Follow is fishing and fishing is following.

Love you guys.
Jmegrey