Matthew 12:5 Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

Are you more partial to religious acts or to Christ’s words? I think we would all like to say we try to do what Christ says, but in reality, we do often follow the law of the ‘church’ or ‘religion’ rather than Christ’s words.

Just as man has always got caught up in laws and stuff, we too get caught up in following the letter of the law than thinking about what Christ is teaching and then following that!

Listen closer, think more and wait on the Holy Spirit for guidance!

John 5:18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

If Christ does not fit nicely into your world – what do you do about it?

The Scribes and Pharisees had one way of trying to deal with it – hunt down Jesus and kill Him because He dared to be the Son of God!

Too often in our lives we would rather see Christ change or have Him change the world than we make any changes! But Christ would like us to change to be more like Him.

The more people who try to be more like Christ the better – because we would then see the world change for the better… and that would please God!

Matthew 4:19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”

Have you ever been fishing? How easy did you find it? Depending on who you ask, the answers will be very different!

When I fist started as a young boy we would get bamboo sticks, a bit of line, a float made from anything that floated and a hook from someone who had one!

When Jesus started collecting the disciples He knew they would be very different people and they would all have to take a new look at life with God to move forward.

Each one of us has a very different life with God, from the amateur boy going out with a stick to the seasoned professional with all the right equipment.

Be yourself, but follow God doing it!