DISCIPLE

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

We are called to make disciples, learners. It is the Holy Spirit who will teach these students the gospel according to Jesus. This is an invitation for world persecution because unbelievers go ballistic when we demand that if they won’t confess Jesus only as Lord, they will burn in the furnace of hell forever! Jesus said, “No one comes to the Father but through Me.” No one means just that, no one. So it takes fearless consecration when a newly ordained minister gets up from his knees to combat the evil one for Jesus?

Just try to get even a bold confession from anyone claiming to be born-again. It can be a hopeless task to find those with enough spiritual “T” to share the gospel out loud to anyone who will listen. Where can you hear a bold confession in the world’s marketplace? It might put you in jail!

It’s all about putting Jesus first way before anything or anyone Satan may put in our way to glory. Satan doesn’t care what you plan to do just don’t put Jesus first in your life today. What’s the rush? Enjoy life while you have life within you. You can always get religious when you are old.

Now is the time for fearless faith. What can man do to me? Nothing that I can’t take for Him compares to His sacrifice because He took the cross for me. I’m ready to bear my cross daily to follow Him. Let my feet step in His bloody footprints and go about His business for His glory and honor.

It’s all a matter of following Him: nothing more, nothing less. WE must be the anvil that takes many blows and has the perseverance to press on. He knows the way if we stay right on His heels. It’s His purposes we live for and it’s His power and presence that urges us on to deny ourselves. The more we realize how little we are in His scheme of things the easier it becomes to become lesser to as top increasingly so display His greatness. Teach me Lord, I am a willing learner!