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“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My Ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts Your thoughts.” Is. 55: 9
I wonder if the disciples had any idea what they were in for.
While Nathanael gathered figs, Matthew sat at his table counting taxes, Andrew wound nets tight on a rocking boat. Did any of them dream of something more? Did they ponder the Scriptures promising the Messiah would come? Or were their minutes already as full as my own? Did His coming and calling take them by surprise?
I think the latter is probably more likely. He surprised them. They probably weren't watching. And they certainly didn't expect Him to show up and call them personally. Normal people used supernaturally through the Spirit.
What about you, dear one? Do you remember that He has come, that He is coming, that He continues to call men and women to Himself? Do you live your life with an eye open to the eternal things God might want to do in your own life? To love your neighbor, give to the needy, spread light?
“Jesus’ work in a person's life has always begun with a call to leave behind the goals, purposes, distractions of this world, to say yes to a whole new life, and way of thinking. ‘Follow me,’ He told the disciples as He recruited them. And they did, abandoning their fishing nets, their tax-collector's moneybags, permanent homes, their everyday duties and pleasures. They never went back. Sure, they still did a little fishing from time to time! But once they made the choice to follow Jesus, their lives were forever changed, never returning to 'normal.'
We know we are called to follow Christ, to take His message to the world, to raise our children to heed Jesus' call—to understand this. But sometimes I think we fail to consider that following the Lord might mean leaving behind the ordinary, the familiar. It means exchanging a temporal view of life for an eternal goal. And this may mean leaving behind things we really care about—involvements, pursuits that seem important and worthwhile but may not be God's best for us.” (Quote from The Ministry of Motherhood)