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Mathew 4: 12..23 Jesus calls - to each of us to be the followers of Christ. Begins not with what he knows, but with what we know. It begins not with what he does best, but with what we do best."
Now, the reading for this Sunday is the Gospel is where Jesus is calling his disciples for the first time. He says to them,
“Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Being a Christian is to follow Christ, no matter what.:
We follow Him through prayer, fasting, having the right priorities. Not just on Sunday but every day. To follow Christ means, not to be like the world.
Investigate yourself. See how much you’re like the world. To the extent you are, to that extent you’re not a Christian. We all struggle with various weaknesses. I’m talking about the way you live your life. If you go day-by-day-by-day and hardly ever pray, can you say you’re a Christian? If you go day-by-day-by-day and rarely go to church, if you go day-by-day-by-day and really don’t think of spiritual things, are you following Christ?
When you wake up in the morning, your first priority, really the only priority you should have that day, is to be a better Christian, to learn something of God and to do it. It should be all that matters. It doesn’t matter about the meeting you have that morning or about the potential for profit in this or that or that you’re tired or that you’re busy or anything else. None of it matters, because it’s all going to go away.
The only thing that’s going to stay is the person you become. That’s it. Nothing else matters. All that matters is who you become. The world doesn’t know that, but the Christians do. So to follow Christ means to not be like the world.