Follow

Thursday June 12th, Matthew 9: 9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. Matthew, like Abram, just got up and followed. No training, no special accomplishments, just a willingness to follow. What Matthew did from then on was to follow Jesus lead. The disciples did not always “get it.” Even as Jesus was ascending to Heaven at the very last, I am sure that Matthew was one of those who asked if the kingdom was going to be restored to Israel at that time. Jesus just shook his head and left, knowing Matthew and the rest of the bunch would figure it out. Now Jesus is leaving it for us to figure out. What we have most to figure out is that life works when we follow Jesus and open the door and life doesn’t work so well when we get up our own head of steam and close the door now. Reading the rest of scripture is to follow the disciples learning to be disciples by leaving the door open, not only for God, but also for everyone else who is as undeserving as they are.