Have you ever heard someone say that you need to ‘follow Jesus,’ and then just felt a huge wave of guilt wash over you because, whatever that means, you're pretty sure you aren't doing it? Jesus is calling you to follow Him, But what does that mean, exactly? Does it mean you have to be perfect, or that you have to follow all the rules? Nah. There's no one like that. To 'follow Him' has to be something a real person can actually do, or else it just winds up being one of those things religious people talk about to make everyone else feel bad, but no one is actually doing, not even them. Whatever it means to follow Him, it has to be possible for normal humans, and it has to be something that happens in your will. When spiritual movements begin in your mind and heart and then come to life in your will, everything in your life begins to change. I think for a lot of folks, the command to follow Jesus is intimidating because, although they want to do that, they basically think it's too late. In other words, they think about following Jesus like a train that's moving down the tracks. Maybe at one point they were on it, but they messed up and a had a few bad weeks in a row. In their mind, the train is so far away now, they could never get back on. Here's the truth: You may have walked away, but Jesus isn't miles away down the tracks. He's right behind you. No matter what you've done, you can follow Him today. No matter how far you've run away, all you have to do is turn around.
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