Do you remember when flip flops were meant just for the beach and not for everyday wear? Do you remember when only girls used mousse and hair gel for their hair?
Do you remember when tattoos were only for bikers? Do you remember when white suits were considered cool? Do you remember when rap did not exist?
Do you remember the first kiss you had? Do you remember the first time you drove? Do you remember the first paycheck you received?
Do you remember the first time you were sent to the principal's office?
Do you remember where you were when 9/11 happened?
Do you remember who won the Super Bowl in the year 2000?
Do you remember when you were first called to follow Jesus? Jesus calls us into a relationship with God and says that we must follow Him in order to get close to God.
Jesus told Philip to follow Him (John 1:43). This idea of following Jesus is the foundation for moving into a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with God. Following Jesus is simple Christianity.
When we follow Jesus all other things will be fulfilled. We will gather together as Believers, we will pray and study our Word, we will disciple others, we will reach out to the spiritually lost, we will seek to give to the least of these, and on and on and on.
When we follow the basic of following Jesus we will get everything else right.
Do you remember when you were first called to follow Jesus? If you don't remember an exact date why not think back and set a date and a year of when you knew that you knew you were a follower of His?
I can remember several times of 'conversion' where I got SAVED from hell during a hellfire and brimstone message and literally ran to the altar scared (and scarred!) to death.
Yet, I've chose the date in my little blue Baptist baptism Bible from California as the day I decided to become a follower of Jesus. It is solid and it probably explains why my path followed a quite drastically different path then my brothers.
Remember by writing the date in your Bible as well as writing the physical location, the city and state, and the 'witnesses' to your decision to follow Jesus.
Remembering when we decided to follow Jesus (or when Jesus decided to call us?) will help us remember that God found us and invited us into a relationship with Him; an invitation into a family, a party, and a dance instead of an invitation into an exclusive and boring club with strict dress codes.
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