On Being a Jesus Follower

I would like to follow Jesus.

I say it all the time. Our calling as Christians is to follow Him. We believers are disciples, the modern-day counterparts of Peter, James, and John, etc. Sometimes we even call ourselves "Christ followers."

But still and all, we hardly know any better than those first disciples how to actually "follow" the Master. Or, perhaps, having studied our Bibles, we do know, but we simply don't do what we say we want to do.

So the question presents itself: what does it mean to follow Jesus? What does following Him look like? What does it take? How do we begin?

I don't propose to answer these questions thoroughly in one blogpost (even if I could!). My hope is to dwell on the questions, to come back to them from time to time.

So I'll just start the ball rolling by saying a few things than come quickly to mind:

• Following Jesus will look like the blessed life described in the beatitudes of Matthew 5.
• Following Jesus will involved a serious commitment to the kind of life described by Jesus in the rest of the Sermon on the Mount.
• Following Jesus will accord with holiness as that is defined through the Word of God.
• Following Jesus is exactly the same as, in Paul's words, keeping in step with the Spirit (Galatians 5:25)

That's a start. More to come.