twelve ordinary man

i was reading through the beginning of the ‘twelve ordinary man’ by john macarthur. a highly acclaimed and well read book, recognized and recommended by various book worms around me that i know of haha !

there was a particular portion in which i was reading through that specified the event of peter and co, fishing without results and obviously exhausted and drained. Jesus later came in and told him to throw the net into the deep blue sea of ‘fishlessness’ once more, and as usual God did not disappoint, filling their net with abundance that it nearly sunk both boats off coast!

such a amazing feat captured their hearts, that’s when jesus called them to ‘follow me’ and they ‘forsook all and followed him’. peter and gang went on to fulfill enormous work for God, taking up the role of apostleship and ultimately bringing the gospel alive to the world so much so that the gospel is very much alive and relevant in our times and date.

peter and gang were later on subjected to death for the gospel except john who still went through tremendous hardship and toil and ultimately died exiled. so we’ve got to question ourselves, with the tremendous work that God have done in many of our lives, is it not enough for him to inspire our following. feeding your hungry soul when it lacks. filling your thirst when you lack. giving you a purpose when you lack. loving you when sin places us against the odds.

peter and gang did not know they were going to die for the gospel. but they knew what they wanted to live for. they didn’t know death was a final requirement of their work. They were inspired to die for their work. that makes jesus a great mentor too i believe, after he died for it as well, didn’t he ?

ministry doesn’t require death. The calling inspires death for the gospel.

are you inspired ?

btw you’ve got to check out this cool young dude, he’s like the next jimi hendrix of modern day !