THURSDAY- 5TH JUNE, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHY ARE YOU NOT FOLLOWING? - Minding Your Calling Series 005
Matthew 19:21-22, KJV
"21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions."
That's a good question to ask. "Why are you not following?" My own prayer is that God will come for you when you don't have much price to pay. When God came to call me to followership, I was on campus. I didn't have much to lose. As I followed intently, I realized God's call on my life and it wasn't difficult for me any longer to separate myself to that holy calling. Though I had reasons to unfollow but I thank God they were all not tangible enough to take me from ministry or following Jesus.
The call to follow could come in a simple call to serve as a campus executive. As I write this, I recalled many students that were chosen as executives but who went back or denied that call. Many of them didn't leave campus before we saw the dangers of not being rightly hooked up by God. Some wander off without a balanced Christian life while some even got impregnated to our shock. If they had heeded that call, it would have pruned down their lives and hooked them up to a higher living.
A call to follow Jesus is a blessing in disguise. As the called, you'll have no eyes for certain things. You'll just escape the ordinary man's temptations.
Meanwhile, some have become something before their call to followership or discipleship came. So, it became difficult for them to leave all to follow Jesus. A typical example is this young wealthy man. On several occasions, some wanted to follow Jesus intimately (to wherever He goes) but Jesus denied them that entry. He told them, "foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the son of man has no where to lay his head." He dissuaded them big time! However, this one got a free invite to follow Jesus but he still squandered it. Let me ask you. "What have you become that is hindering your discipleship or following Jesus?" "What do you possess that's fighting your destiny journey so hard?" I want to believe that God had an apostolic destiny for this young man and if he had followed, he could have contributed to the writing of the books of the Bible. However, he couldn't follow. When it comes to yielding up his wealth to follow Jesus, he just couldn't do it. He went away sorrowing because the thought of yielding up his properties was too big for him to accommodate. May nothing not be too big for you to yield to follow Jesus or be separated into your calling.
In following Jesus, you have to count your wealth or any qualification of yours as dung. Unless you see it like Paul sees it, you cannot fully embrace your newly found call and way of life. There are those God has a prophetic journey for and He'll sure call them into it at a certain time. May you be ready to pay the price. May you not be persuaded out of that call. What would have happened if this man had followed Jesus and learnt of Him. Is there anyone who followed Jesus so closely without Jesus having a definite plan for? I believe he would have become great in God's will. Beyond his business, he'll have become a fisher of men with special graces that we could be reading today. Probably he could have outrival Paul because he's also a sound young man.
Be observant. God's investment in your life since your childhood is not in vain. According to the confession of this man, he's been faithfully keeping the law since a child. It means this man to a good extent has fulfilled a good part of being thought of as a minister. He's not someone who sins erratically all around. He has mastered his own body and conquers certain innate passions. He is a responsible young man. All he needed to do is to be meek and submit to discipleship so that one day, he could do the work that Jesus does. I pray, may nothing hinder your journey into your tomorrow.
PRAYER: Lord, I yield all up. Nothing shall occupy my heart and consume me like You.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 19:17-42 & I Chronicles 17-19
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