Identity: Your Choices
You are what you choose. Your identity shows by what you chose. Junk food or healthy food? Lie about your sick day or take an honest vacation? Speed beyond the limit or stay within the boundary? You are known by what you chose. In Matthew 4:18-22, Jesus called his first four disciples. It was not a cold call for sure. They've had interactions in the past. Here's a thought you have to remember. When God keeps on moving in your life, He eventually expects a definite response. Jesus stepped up and first called Peter, then his brother Andrew. In the next segment, he called the brothers, James and John of Zebedee. All four left the nets, their families and followed Jesus. You can argue all you want on what these men were thinking when they forsook their livelihood and followed the Messiah - but one thing is for sure, who saw how who they really were by the choice that they ...