Jumat, 01 Mei 2009

FOLLOWERS or DISCIPLES

"And you--would you also like to leave?"

If you are followers of course you will go to leave HIM. Why? Because they are can’t listen what the Jesus teaching. Jesus teaching is very hard to them. They follow Jesus to find a joy but they receive a hard preaching. They choose to leave Jesus.

If you are disciples of course you will stay there. The pure disciples will answer like Simon Peter. "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life”. Jesus is Road to be happiness. He is Door to get the eternal life. He is true GOD. So that everyone who believes in HIM may have eternal life.

Who are you? Are you the followers or the disciples? If you run while heard the Jesus preach so you are the true followers but if you still there you are the true disciple.

How to be followers and disciple both? You must transform from followers to disciple. In first we are followers, but we must grow up to be disciples. Let’s follow HIM with big love. Many of us feel quite uneasy because we have to admit that we do not love GOD. Many of us give pre-requirement to love GOD. “Yes, I would like to love GOD, but …”.  Let’s love HIM without pre-requirement and we will be a disciple.

 

Pilgrim



Life is a pilgrim. We are on the earth, and sooner or later we shall reach our destination. That destination we call heaven. There we shall see GOD as HE is, and that experience will be the cause of a happiness which will be complete and have no end. We are made for that.

Road to heaven is full of challenge. That challenge can bring us to the temptation. Sin will be greatest challenge in the road. However that challenge will be lost if we still belief in GOD, love HIM in all of our live.

Life is pilgrim and our pilgrim is effort to know GOD, to love HIM and serve HIM in this world, and to be happy with HIM forever in the next.