Discipleship; What's the deal?

My intention in this blog is to encourage you, the reader, to become active as a disciple of Jesus. For a long time, I wondered about that whole business. Why? What’s it all about? How do you do it.

In Sunday school we sang, “Read your Bible and pray every day and you’ll grow, grow, grow…”. 

Why? So what?

Frankly, it looked like everyone else was having all the fun. Only after years of seeing how the ones I envied developed and how their lives looked did I begin to see the value and wisdom of taking those simple instructions seriously.

For myself I was one in the middle. I wanted to be a teacher, someone in authority, where it involved spiritual things. But, I envied those who turned their backs on spiritual things and lived for pleasure. I was in the “we don’t smoke and we don’t chew and we don’t go with girls that do” group. I think that may be the most miserable group of all.

It wasn’t until much later that I began to see that the ones following the way that Jesus offers are the truly happy ones. I began to try to learn what it means to be a disciple, not just a Christian. In John 10:10 Jesus says,

The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

What is that abundant life?

It’s something to think about, pray about and look into.