“And they follow Me” (John 10:27)

Christ is our Shepherd. Saints should follow their Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, and He has a right to lead us wherever He pleases. We’re not our own. “You were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:20).

Christ is our Lord. When we submitted to Him unconditionally, we did so because we trusted Him as absolute Lord of everything in our lives. In the Greek language, the Apostles identified themselves as “slaves of Christ”. “He who is called while free is Christ’s slave. You were bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 7:22–23).

Christ recruited us to fight. “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier” (2 Timothy 2:3-4).

If we question why God has caused or allowed something bad to happen to us, we can start to lose faith in His Lordship. Submission is our duty, and doubting, “all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose, is denying our Lord.

When Christ was giving instructions to the Apostle Peter, Peter asked what was to happen to the Apostle John. Christ rebuked him with, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me” (John 21:22).

There will be times when it seems your world is falling apart. That’s when you need to draw closer to Christ, and away from the world. Even though we don’t know where we’re going, we know Christ, who is in us, has already been there, and prepared the way. With such a companion, how can we fear?

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