Sunday, April 26, 2009

A new 4/20

April 20th is known to some people as a holiday. Sadly it's not a holiday we should be proud of, and is quite disappointing that some people even take this "holiday" seriously. But 4/20 is, national pot day. I don't know much about it but people go out and get crazy high, which typically means canceling any plans for the next day.
This year 4/20 landed on a Monday, the night I have small group. We were talking about this "holiday" and decided to make our own 4/20. We were hoping to make something good out of the situation. We started going through the Bible and looking at all the 4:20s until we found one that started sticking out to us. After a bit of narrowing down we settled on Matthew.

At once they left their nets
and followed him.
-Matt. 4:20

A small and simple verse with so much power behind it. The first two words are convicting. "At once" There was no hesitance in the brothers decision to follow Jesus. They got right up and left. They dropped their nets. The complete source of income. They jumped into following this almost stranger, leaving everything they had to survive. But there wasn't even a second of thought "hey you know I don't really know this guy, maybe I should wait awhile and see what he's really like before I leave everything" No way! They had enough faith in Jesus to leave at once. Could you do that?

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