How To Follow Jesus Fully

Do you have a heart like Caleb?

Numbers 14:24

 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

Imagine following God fully!  What a testimony to any believer's life  aware of own sinfulness, we'd hardly claim to follow Him so well.  Caleb was not perfect any more than we are, but his heart was committed to God.  You can see that by the way he stood up for taking the Promised Land, and through the years, his hear for God never lessened.  Yet this faithful man still spent forty years in the desert, companion to the faithless Israelities.  All that time, his eyes must have focused on the promise God made here.  He would eventually see the land God had promised him and his children.  Caleb's heroic qualities appear larger than life in part because of his faithful waiting.  Despite own correct choice, he did not get an immediate inheritance.  Yet the Bible never says he whined, complained or blamed anyone else.  He displays impressive composure.  

How to Follow Jesus

Mark 8:34-37

The Way of the Cross

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Are You Ready To Follow Him?

resources: Life Application Study Bible,  The Everyday Guide To Success,