TODAY’S WORD FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2015.
FOLLOW
To accept as a guide or a leader; to accept the authority of; to imitate or copy; to pursue or go after; to conform to or comply with.
Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. Exodus 23:2
The Lord said to Moses, speak to the Israelites and say to them: I am the Lord your God. You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you use to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. Leviticus 18:1-3
Follow means to accept someone as a guide or a leader and do as they do. God allows us to choose who we will follow. Who we follow will determine the course of our life. We have grand-children that like to hike, sometimes backpacking for several days, but they always have a leader that knows the way. Without a knowledgeable leader they could take a wrong turn and be lost for an extended time.
In life it is important to be wise in choosing who we follow and make sure they know the way. Who knows better than God who is all wise and all knowing.
Most people today just follow the crowd but just because everyone is doing something does not make it right. Following the crowd will lead us to think as they think and will cloud our judgment concerning God’s standards of what is right or wrong.
After God called Moses to the mountain top at Sinai to give Moses the Ten Commandments, Moses brought God’s instructions to the Israelites to teach them how God wanted them to live their lives. He said in the verse we have put above, “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong.”
God’s commandments never change so this admonition is good for us today. It might mean we will find ourselves standing alone but remember God will be with you so you will never be alone.
When raising a family parents must teach their children to live as God commands and that it might mean that they will have to stand alone. Children are followers. In most cases children will follow the example the parents set for them. If parents do not live in obedience to God they cannot expect their children to. Our actions always speak louder than our words.
Let’s look at what God has told us in the scripture about the word follow. Jesus said in John 12:26 that whoever serves Him must follow Him. When Jesus chose His disciples He instructed them in Matthew 4:19 to “Come and follow Me.” When Jesus called James and John, the brothers, they were fishing with their family. They left their father and their boat and in Matthew 4:22 it reads that they left all too completely follow Jesus. They were totally committed to following Jesus.
We too must follow Jesus wholeheartedly. He commands us in Matthew 22:37 to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Our memory verse for this week is found in Mark 16:15.
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”
Keep me this day from following the crowd and help me in my desire to follow You completely and wholeheartedly. Help me to live my life so that my children and peers will desire to follow You with all their heart, their soul and their mind.
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