Follow and Go

These are the words of Jesus: follow and go. Follow speaks of the submission to stay close to Jesus.  Go speaks of the increase in your progression.  You should follow, and you should go if you’re walking with Jesus.  If you are walking with Jesus and reading your Bible, you know this language.  Your job for the rest of your life is to do Kingdom Business. Find King Jesus and receive His commandments.  Then – follow and go.

We decide that we’re going to be God-chasers for the rest of our lives.  God blesses pursuit.  When I go to Acuna or any of our 51 rescue centers, the kids that chase me down are the kids that are going to get a special blessing.  I don’t care if they’re the worst kids in the house. Bad kids tend to love me. I don’t care that I’m not blessing them according to the standard of conduct they are held to in their homes. I’m blessing them because they chase me down.

God blesses pursuit.  It’s what qualifies us to know Him in greater ways than other people know Him.  It is what qualifies us to walk in blessings that other people do not walk in. It’s what qualifies us for greatness of impact simply because we went after Him.  It is in following Him that you learn the goodness of God.  When you pursue Him, when you go after Him, you find out He’s your protection.  You find out He’s your provider. You find out He’s your comforter and so much more.

You do that because He took you into unsafe places – that’s where you found out He’s your protector.  Because He told you to give away everything you had – you find out He’s your provider.  Because Jesus took you into a place where you were wrecked emotionally for several days – you found out He’s your comforter. It is in tracking with Him and following Him that we learn the goodness of the Lord. When we follow Him, we learn that we can get through anything because we are close to Him.  That is the lesson of the wilderness.