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"Come follow Me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19

Jesus called a variety of different people, but they all had the same challenges in front of them. All of them had to leave behind their own plan and their own idea of the future to follow someone else's. I'm sure that you all have your own plan, and have a certain way that you would like for your future to go, but what if God asked you to let your life go in a different direction than the one that you have in mind? Would you be willing to bend to the plan that He has laid out for you? To what extent would you be willing to change your life? The disciples had to make total changes, leaving everything they knew to follow God. Would you be able to do the same?

Most people would not be able to answer yes to this question, and really, who can blame them. There are very few models of people doing this in America today. Everywhere you look are people doing things "their way", and according to the expectation of this generation, lots of people are enjoying great success living their lives according to their plan. What would have happened if we would have been there to give counsel to the disciples when Jesus called them? If we would have brought this line of reasoning to them, what would have happened if they would have listened and decided not to follow God, but to follow their own desire? I think that it is easy to see that the disciples lives would have been considerably less successful if they had chosen to not follow God. I don't believe that we will get to the other side someday and hear all the regrets that the disciples have for following Jesus. And you know what? I don't think that anyone else, from the beginning of time till the end, will regret following God either. Were the disciples lives wasted because of their choice to follow Jesus? Of course not. Their choice to follow Jesus was really just the beginning of their lives.

I believe that it will be the same with any follower of Jesus. You can go with the plan that you have drawn up, and maybe even complete many of your plans, but the most important thing in life is not completing your own plan, but to complete the plan that God has for you.

Psalm 127:1
"Unless the Lord builds the house, the work of the builders is wasted."