Covered in the Dust: Part III - We've Left Everything
"Peter began to say to him, 'Look, we have left everything and followed you.' Jesus said, ' Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions - and in the age to come eternal life. '" -Mark 10:28 Jesus called Matthew saying, "Follow Me," and Matthew answered extravagantly. He left his tax booth behind. Jesus called Peter saying, "Follow me, and I will make you [a fisher] of mankind," and Peter left the boat, and abandoned his nets. Every disciple had to let go of their life as they knew it in order to follow Christ. Today the call of Christ rings out, "Follow Me." Many never hear that call, and this is a tragedy, but the greater tragedy is those who hear, but stand paralyzed by the