The Ham of God

When we follow Jesus we begin to get over ourselves.

If you are following Jesus to get into heaven when you die, you are not really following Jesus. You’re pursuing your own agenda, and Jesus seems to you to be the best strategy to get what you’re after.

Following Jesus means just that: following Jesus. Just to follow Jesus. To be near him and to join him in what he is doing. And that is the very essence of eternal life.

Chasing after anything else results in earthly, merely biological life. For a time we grow and thrive, but eventually we decline and pass away.

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This is probably very clear when the object of our desire is fame or status or wealth or power or sex appeal. But even when we achieve very good goals like spiritual depth, theological clarity, and moral rectitude our lives wither like the grass unless they are fruit born by a higher passion: our desire to follow Jesus.

Following Jesus is eternal life. A wholly different kind of life. We first experience, and begin to develop in, eternal life right her…