Mark 1:17-20 And Jesus said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed Him. Going on a little farther, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. Immediately He called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went away to follow Him.
These passages are in a stark contrast to what happens later in the ministry of Jesus once He has gained some popularity. People begin asking Him if they could follow Him (Luke 9:57-62) with a very different result. They were not turned down as much as shown where their hearts where not yet ready for the call to follow Christ. When your heart is not ready or, to put it another way, when you say, “I will follow you… but first” then you already prove you are not truly following Christ but your own path which you have decided would be good alongside the path Christ is on. You see you are still your own boss when you come to Christ with stipulations. Christ will have all or none of you. There is no in between for Him. Are you holding back? What have you told Christ you must do before you are ready to follow Him? It is that very thing which is keeping you back from the kingdom of God.
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