ODB: obey the call
September 24, 2010
Wanted: Messengers to deliver the good news.
READ: Mark 1:16-20
They immediately left their nets and followed Him. —Mark 1:18
I read about Captain Ray Baker who flew for the Strategic Air Command during the Vietnam War. The Air Force trained him, along with the other pilots, to run out of their barracks to their planes at the sound of a buzzer. Many times during dinner he had to drop his utensils and bolt to his bomber. He had been trained to respond to the call with immediate obedience. He was so well-trained that one day while on furlough, he ran out of a restaurant when he heard a buzzer.
When Jesus called His first followers, they had an immediacy in their response to His call. The call of these fishermen was abrupt. Yet “they immediately left their nets and followed Him” (Mark 1:18). The author of this account, Mark, may have wanted to impress upon his readers the authority of Jesus. When He extended the call, these men jumped to obey because helping people enter the kingdom of God was a more compelling adventure and a grander vision than catching fish.
When Jesus issues a call to follow Him, He doesn’t want us to delay. He expects immediate obedience when it comes to telling others the good news. Bring someone the story of salvation today! —Marvin Williams
Source: Our Daily Bread
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Whenever JESUS call us, we must be ready to HIS calling. Sometime our heart is not sensitive to hear HIS calling, that because we are to busy with our own business, in doing the work oh this world that have no related to God work or maybe our problem is too complicated. So, that’s important to find a day to just praise Him, by singing the worship song, read the Bible, pray to other people that need the helping of God and hear what Jesus needed from us. By this way, our heart, our spirit will be more sensitive to hear Jesus word’s we must be done. JESUS is King of the kings.