Follow Jesus-One Step at a Time

And he said to them, “Follow me… Matthew 4:19

We followed him up the steps as he said, “Let me show you what I’m building in the attic…”

He was building … with his own hands…

…a gigantic master suite with a walk-in closet bigger than most bedrooms.

His house was a ranch style house…

He’d been changing it… one room at a time… since he moved in forty years ago…

It started when he looked out the back of the house one day, and thought, “A deck would look nice…”

So he built it.

A few years later, he built a four-season porch connected to the kitchen by a door.

“Wouldn’t it be great,” he asked his wife a little while later, “if the kitchen were open to the porch?”

She left to run errands.

When she came back, he’d torn down most of the wall separating the rooms.

He built his house one room at a time…

One idea at time…

One step at a time…

“When I started building forty years ago,” he said, “I had no idea how the whole house would turn out.”

One step at a time…

Are we willing to follow Jesus one step at a time?

That’s what the disciples literally did…

They followed his physical footsteps, one at a time…

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him ~ Matthew 4:19-20

The disciples followed Him…

Even though they didn’t know about Calvary…

Even though they didn’t know about an empty tomb.

They simply heard his words and followed him…

One step at a time…

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Psalm 119:105

They followed a word that illuminated their next step, not their final destination…

Do we have that much faith?

Do we have the faith to follow Jesus one step at a time?

Will we follow Jesus wherever He goes, knowing that it is God who leads the way?

“The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand.” Psalm 37:23-24